Quote by Bram Stoker

“What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.”

— Rafik Schami

“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity. In self-defense,…

— Steven Erikson

“A finely tuned spike of pain speared through his skull, signalling a detectable breach in his conditioning. He didn't want to stop his decent…

— Nalini Singh

“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the man who…

— Courtney Giardina

“It’s a strange kind of torture,” he said quietly. “To be caged by the lowest expectations. A humiliation of the soul.”

— Meredith Duran

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

“She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the one bright,…

— V.S. Carnes

“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind of man…

— Victor Hugo

“I suffered unbearable torture in silence, weeping internallyat the sad turn of events, blaming myself bitterly again and again for having delved into the…

— Gopi Krishna

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“Time wove clarity from insanity and crowned his soul with the thorns of purpose.”

— Bishop Harber