Torment Quotes

361 quotes by 286 authors

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been… — Alphonsus Liguori
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected… — William Blake
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all… — Samuel Clarke
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels… — Isaac Newton
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in… — William J. Clinton
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom… — William Blake
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been… — Flora Rheta Schreiber
These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the… — John Ankerberg
Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past? — Miyuki Miyabe
Donâ€™t misuse the pencil and donâ€™t torment the paper. — Uri Shulevitz
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. — Djuna Barnes
Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us… — Demi Lovato
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh… — Julie Kagawa
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven. — Isaac Asimov
There is always something missing that torments me. — Camille Claudel
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of… — Carl Jung

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