Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all… — James A. Baldwin
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! — Joseph Addison
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid… — Lord Chesterfield
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. — Emile M. Cioran
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was… — Unknown Author
What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all… — Arnulf Ã˜verland
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,… — Phillip Lopate
It is silliness to live when to live is torment. — William Shakespeare
I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In… — Jimmy Connors
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when… — Joseph Hall
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and… — Saint John Chrysostom
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell… — Marquis de Sade
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. — George Bernard Shaw
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. — Colley Cibber
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone de Beauvoir
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that… — Isaac Asimov
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how… — Henry Ward Beecher

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