Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget… — Hans Christian Andersen
You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are… — Anne Rice
Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to… — William P. Young
I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks,… — Cassandra Clare
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas. — Daniel Woodrell
How many lives do you need to live before you fine someone worth dying for? — Lauren Kate
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel — Thomas E. Sniegoski
She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a… — Anne Stuart
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or… — Nicole Krauss
I know he would die if you died, Luce — Lauren Kate
He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It… — Lauren Kate
When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart… — Lauren Kate
He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self,… — Hermann Hesse
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of… — Vladimir Nabokov
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed… — Boris Pasternak
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame. — Jack London
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and… — D. H. Lawrence
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you? — Elizabeth Hoyt
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He… — Jonathan Franzen
And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all… — Brian D. McLaren
At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns… — Cate Tiernan

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