Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
I have never felt as violated in myself as I had since the DoD team started to torture me to get me… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world. — Peter T. King Copy Share Image
“No, Robyn was the one who needed to fly. And his challenge, his torture, would be always remembering to let her do… — Nia Forrester Copy Share Image
Healthy men do not turn into tortures generally it is the tortured that turn into the torturers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!"… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not… — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture. — Ginette Paris Copy Share Image
“Humanity was an ugly word when such cruelty was inflicted on one another.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
“Yeah, he’d yield. He was a bad cut of steak left on the open grill too long, though—the general’s teeth wouldn’t be… — Rhi Etzweiler Copy Share Image
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” — United Nations Copy Share Image
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
