#torment

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? ↗

— David Byrne

#comes #creativity #draw #fixed #i

How delicious is pleasure after torment! ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#delicious #how #pleasure #torment

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#discovery #doing #enables #gives #i

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? ↗

— James Wolcott

#asked #dark #did #get #here

I define myself and grow as a person through emotional torment, so if you love me, you will inflict as much pain on me as you possibly can. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#love #pain #torment #funny

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it? ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#confusing #define #holy #how #i

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#flee #men #most #need #sensual

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#ago #black #disappointment #golden #i

...and Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.) ↗

— Lauren Kate

#torment #funny

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#becomes #danger #emotionally #epic #epic poetry