Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
Pain now is better than pain deferred.
The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.
If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan said, "Black people ain't poor, they just don't spend wisely" and that's the truth.
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.
I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.
