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
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“My doppelganger wraps the ear in a handkerchief and shoves it into his pocket as he leaves the train with a nod… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq.… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
“Spittle flew from Jango’s lips as he shouted at the man in a woman’s voice that sounded like it was made of… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. — John McCain Copy Share Image
