“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.” — Belinda Taylor Copy Share Image
I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“God has tortured Theo plenty. If suffering makes noble, then he is a prince.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“As long as I was tortured by love for him, I wanted him to be just as miserable as I was.” — Laura Elizabeth Woollett Copy Share Image
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul. — Elodie Yung Copy Share Image
“He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Even if I'm to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have a right to fight against it. — Jun Mochizuki Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the… — gail carriger Copy Share Image
“It was damn hard leaving you,” he said. “I was afraid that if I didn’t, you’d be killed or tortured, or we… — Kathy Kulig Copy Share Image
“He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a… — Chris Struyk-Bonn Copy Share Image
I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and… — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
“It's ludicrous to even talk about (Marquis) de Sade, let alone indulge in all that, when people are being tortured and suffering… — Françoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“I ain’t cuffin’ Luke to no bed,” Tex boomed, tearing me away from my intriguing thoughts. “Fuck, I’m not cuffin’ Lee or… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
“His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“This girl who equally drove me crazy and made me care about her more than I should. She was the only one… — Stacey Kade Copy Share Image
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The Vamp Council hung a portrait of me on their hero wall. How's that for ironic?' 'Especially since they showed it to… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“John Berryman: The Song of the Tortured Girl After a little I could not have told - But no one asked me… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I know I’m one royal screw up, and god knows there’s nothing I could ever do to deserve you,” he began, taking… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
“He dipped his hand into the grease and leaned forward to smear it on the woman’s tortured skin. His hand hovered above… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“God, Abby, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry,” he said as he stared out the bay window onto the lake. The serene morning… — Cindy Paterson Copy Share Image
“The idea that the spirits of those once tortured in the house might still be there was the avenue his imagination began… — Matthew Williams Copy Share Image
“Jonas went and sat beside them while his father untied Lily's hair ribbons and combed her hair. He placed one hand on… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“thinking that he’s being tortured specifically to incapacitate me is unendurable. And it’s under the weight of this revelation that I truly… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. — John Zorn Copy Share Image
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.” — John Fante Copy Share Image
“You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist,… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
