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
Men have to be freed from the tortures of heavy clothing that covers everything but the face and hands. — Elsa Schiaparelli 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
“The child tortures the fly because he has the power to do so, and had not yet learned how mercifully to kill.” — Dalton Trumbo 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
“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
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
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
