Torment Quotes

361 quotes by 297 authors

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
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I… — Abraham Lincoln
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Death is but an instant, life a long torment. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It… — George H. Smith
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been… — Anna Sewell
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than… — Margaret E. Knight
Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting… — Thomas Merton
No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience. — William Gurnall
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell
It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money. — Frank Zappa
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but… — Thomas Chalmers
Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are… — Rudolf Steiner
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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