The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed Ill fail, and vise versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.
Samuel Beckett
Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors
Alice Borchardt