“O God! Whatever punishment you inflict upon me, do not punish me with the humiliation of being veiled from Thee.”

“An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.”

“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”

“If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.”

“You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.”

“Will you punish me forever?”

“The vengeful God of wrath and punishment
is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me
That makes me fail.”

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

“There is no correlation between having the ability to punish and being right. More often than not, the wrong people get punished. And the punishers use their power to keep from being accountable.”

“No occupation is more tiresome or depressing than that of killing time. It is the cause of lifeweariness, the punishment the soul inflicts upon itself when reduced to passiveness and servitude.”