#torment

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoided #better #dangers #destiny #exceeds

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once? ↗

— Eva Braun

#does #finish #his #instant #keeps

How delicious is pleasure after torment! ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#delicious #how #pleasure #torment

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #evils #man #prolongs #reality

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ↗

— William Penn

#jealous #others #themselves #torment #troublesome

Love begets love. This torment is my joy. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#joy #love #torment

And how do you confess to a beautiful woman that you can't fulfill a relationship because you're tormented by the presence of another woman that doesn't even exist? ↗

— Victoria Caro

#tormented-mind #beauty

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ↗

— Washington Irving

#felicity #marriage #strife #three #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

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

— Richard Steele

#only #others #passions #pleasing #solitude