If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic.
The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I've-just-had-it-I'm-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I'm-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can't imagine what it would take to do that.
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
