#torment

Love begets love. This torment is my joy. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#joy #love #torment

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#everyone #i #i love #love #mix

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #stuff #torments #try #us

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. ↗

— Dan Savage

#dead #even #got #lives #love

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#agony #because #beforehand #cannot #concert

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. ↗

— Richard Steele

#only #others #passions #pleasing #solitude

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#criticism #hypocrites #may #most #though

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#before #body #ever #feel #greater

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. ↗

— Baron de Montesquieu

#bored #come #content #fool #generations

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters ↗

— Mathias Malzieu

#monsters #torment #transform #wretch #love