To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labour;

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor ...

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness.

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.