#torments

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#help #i #infinity #me #myself

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #evils #man #prolongs #reality

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

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#dark #exercised #gave #himself #his