Torment Quotes

361 quotes by 286 authors

Why must women torment me so? — Theodore Dreiser
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? — Jean Paul
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic… — Joshua L. Liebman
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks… — Unknown Author
It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege. — Louise Bourgeois
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever Iâ€™m confronted with a tough challenge,… — Wilma Mankiller
To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle… — Alistair Begg
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally.… — Salvatore Quasimodo
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment… — Sam Vaknin
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through… — Colum McCann
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. — Sergei Parajanov
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace. — Calvin Miller
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. — Peter Lewis Allen
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick… — Frank Zappa
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. — Saul Bellow
But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity.… — Robert Collier
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. — Washington Irving

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