John Florio Quotes

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

There is no love without suffering.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

All of my books come from pain.

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.