Citations:painful


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
 * Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
 * Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.