Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

Thou art to me a delicious torment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless… — W. Somerset Maugham
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. — Ursula K. Le Guin
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.… — W. Somerset Maugham
It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons. — Andrew Sean Greer
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life… — Steven Pressfield
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the… — William Goldman
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if… — Rick Riordan
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first… — Jane Austen
The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after… — Jack London
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would… — Erich Maria Remarque
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart… — Plutarch
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...… — Erich Maria Remarque
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm… — Jonathan Franzen
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do… — Wayne Dyer
All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too. — Unknown Author
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain.… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other… — Herman Melville
I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim."… — Richelle Mead
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as… — Jane Austen

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