Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental. — Ogden Nash 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
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
“Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
“But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Dougan would rather have submitted to his thousand tortures than to have you submit to one. He wouldn't have survived your suffering.… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 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 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
“A series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
Wheeled in on a cart, lying dormant not dead, Hospital of immortality, butcher their patients bloody red, Taken to a dark room,… — Young Dro Copy Share Image
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his… — Marquis De Sade Copy Share Image
“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures… — Jay Carter Copy Share Image
“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Because you're a sick fuck who tortures people!" He wagged his finger at me. "You make it sound so simple . It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Nothing has changed. The body is susceptible to pain, It must eat and breath air and sleep, It has thin skin and… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
“To be forever cursed to stare at a blank canvas is truly tortures for an artist".” — Halima Omar Copy Share Image
Men have to be freed from the tortures of heavy clothing that covers everything but the face and hands. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Healthy men do not turn into tortures generally it is the tortured that turn into the torturers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well — Catullus Copy Share Image
“What tortures have men to endure, comparable to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the… — John Green Copy Share Image
