Torture Quotes

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

— Frances Conroy

Point shoes are torture devices.

— Natalie Portman

Love is a reciprocal torture.

— Marcel Proust

Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

Silence, too, can be torture.

— Anonymous

Torture haters with your smile.

— Ewshy

“Tee hee torture!”

— Lemony Snicket

“Evil is just a way to torture”

— Anonymous

“So, then I’ll just use Jesse’s to torture you some more.”

— Bella Jeanisse

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

— Stanislaw Lem

“Torture by maths should be a felony.”

— Bethany Frenette

“No matter what torture they inflict, don’t let them see you suffer.”

— Sansa Rayne

Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?

— Anonymous

“Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

— Anonymous

“Exhaustion without reward is torture.”

— Kerlynne Ferrer

“For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Not too much. I never got into killing things.” “Preferring slow torture.” “You”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in…

— Dov Davidoff

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

— Teresa of Avila

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

— Michael Moore

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the…

— Bertrand Russell

Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all…

— Henri Nouwen

You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive…

— Ben Gibbard

Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and…

— Wilhelm Reich

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,…

— Adrienne Rich

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can…

— George Steiner

“It’s torture, Desmond…” I breathed, my whole body aching to finish, to do anything but stand here full of him and pretend…

— Dari A. Malaunt

Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay…

— Bill Shuster

I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering…

— Junichiro Koizumi

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve…

— Thomas Hardy

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the…

— Haim Ginott

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain…

— John McCain

Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or…

— Andre Vltchek

A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam…

— Jay Leno

The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave