The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Pain laughed giddily at the thought, for love brought its own brand of torment. Lots and lots of torment. In the heart,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be… — William James Copy Share Image
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to… — William Blake Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
