Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong. — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons. — Andrew Sean Greer 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
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never! — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“This is torment for me, Eva. I can’t focus. I can’t sleep. I lose my temper at the slightest irritants. I’m in… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That… — Tasha Smith Copy Share Image
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. — C.J. Sansom 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
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
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
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
“Well," he said, "don't you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Torturous screams bounced around in his head, whimpers and cries of pain and lust clouding his mind, overbearing and foreboding. Sinning surrounded… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to… — Juan Carlos Copes Copy Share Image
“May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion.… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands… — Homer Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
