What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have no wish to… torment him with my … affection. But I do… I am, most fond of him.” — Sasha Summers Copy Share Image
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To die and part is a less evil ; but to part and live is the torment :( — SAM (THE BEST Copy Share Image
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment… — Curtis Hutson Copy Share Image
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of… — Gerald Kersh Copy Share Image
Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need. — Andy Cole Copy Share Image
When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If the people in a relationship were able to get rid of this torment within and replace it with happiness, love, and… — David Lynch 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
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
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
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
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
“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The torment of hell is not fire and brimstone, pitchforks and claws, or, as Dante supposed, aimless wandering, unsatisfied lust, icy rain,… — Ron Phillips Copy Share Image
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“Human beings always seem to look for someone to torment. They’ve been doing it for many years now and I expect they’ll… — C.C. Tillery Copy Share Image
It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,… — Salvatore Quasimodo 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
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.” — Andrew Cormier Copy Share Image
“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the… — Emil M. Cioran 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
