Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our s...
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What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.
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'All that is best in me I have given to (animals) and I mean to stand by them to the last and share their fate whatever it may be. If it is true that there is to be no haven of rest for them when their sufferings here are at an end, I, for one, am not going to bargain for any heaven for myself. I shall go without fear where they go, and by the side of my brothers and sisters from the forests and the fields, from skies to seas, lie down to merciful extinction in their mysterious underworld, safe from any further torments.'
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
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Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
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Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .
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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
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Luke 16:23:
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
(NIV)
And in Hades (the realm of the dead), being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.
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And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
(KJV)
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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
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Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
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