Cyril Connolly Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Doe

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

  Cyril Connolly

  Pain, Bad Relationship, Two

• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Strong, Pain

• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

  Cyril Connolly

  Hurt, Pain, Hate

• The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

  Cyril Connolly

  Pain, Golden Moments, Pleasure

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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