“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering”
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“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering”
“My sore throats are always worse than anyone's”
“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning”
“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain”
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction”
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”
“Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction”
“To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else”
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy”
“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains”
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk”
“Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom”
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim”
“Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of life”
“The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of prey”
“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain”
“A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child”