Tormentful Quotes & Sayings

But life is just as much pain and mess as it is joy and order. Probably a lot more mess than order, too. — Robert McCammon

The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot. — John S. Hall

Last to dry was the hair.
When we were already far from the sea,
when words and salt, which had merged on us,
separated from one another with a sigh,
and your body no longer showed
signs of a terrible ancientness.
And in vain we had forgotten a few things on the beach,
so that we would have an excuse to return.
We didn't return.
And these days I remember the days
that have your name on them, like a name on a ship,
and how we saw through two open doors
one man who was thinking, and how we looked at the clouds
with the ancient gaze we inherited from our fathers,
who waited for rain,
and how at night, when the world cooled off,
your body kept its warmth for a long time,
like the sea — Yehuda Amichai

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. — Richard Stallman

Live in such a way that even if given another opportunity to live your life all over again, you would still choose to live it exactly the same way that you are living your life now. — William B. Girao

Life is never against you because you are the one who is creating it. — Akemi G

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it. — Rand Paul

Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction. — David W. Earle

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all. — Ally Condie

You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the universe. Lots of people are supernovas but don't know it, they think that they're dead; they don't know that they're beautiful. — C. JoyBell C.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something. — Steven Pinker

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms. — Pandora Poikilos

Each day a raid on the inarticulate--T.S. Eliot — T. S. Eliot

When I was little, I was afraid of monsters. I mistook the silhouettes flitting to and fro in the midst of the bamboo trees for ghost and other horrors. But now, I'm scared of other people, people who you imagine will just jump out form behind the brush to attack you. What age was I when I started to replace the ghosts with people? — Kinoko Nasu