Inflicting Pain

Famous quotes containing the words inflicting pain, inflicting and/or pain:

“Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
—Frank Muir (b. 1920)

“Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)