A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. — Samuel Clarke Copy Share Image
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never… — Eva Braun Copy Share Image
“Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst… — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“To be fated to lose. To know destiny itself the architect of my torment. Can it be true? Is to be Loki… — Robert Rodi Copy Share Image
“Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer… — Fulgentius of Cartagena Copy Share Image
“The albino found himself brooding upon the nature of all unholy bargains, of his own dependency upon the hellsword Stormbringer, of his… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh. A tormented writer? I personally wouldn't have put those two… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You wore my watch then claimed it as your own, twisting its chain slowly, hovered over the blaze of my torment. You… — L V Hall Copy Share Image
I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
