Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

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
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

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