When a man is beaten, tormented and defeated…He is ready…

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

— Cus D'Amato

I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth…

— Andrea Dworkin

A man can be beaten in two ways, if he gives up or he dies.

— Richard Machowicz

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

— Anne Ellis

A frightened man is a beaten man.

— Anonymous

“That little boys and girls should be tormented is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny.”

— Jane Austen

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

— Catullus

No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.

— Kim Jong-hyun

“jealous men only tormented themselves.”

— Philip Freeman

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not…

— Gillian Anderson

No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

— George H. W. Bush

“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read…

— Jane Austen