“Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.”

“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”

“The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.”

“I know that I need to be completely immersed in it for the rest of my life. And that's probably enough for me to make it.”

“Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”

“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.”