Avoidance Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoidance Bad relationship Contemplating Equal Love Lovers No pain Pain Two Two lovers
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer. — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
You know what's the most painful thing in the world? It's when you both love each other yet you couldn't catch things up. Where's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain. — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.” — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.” — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual… — Dora Russell Copy Share
Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
