Torment Quotes

361 quotes by 286 authors

History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It… — Paul Valery
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm… — Donna Brazile
May new sufferings torment your soul. — Soren Kierkegaard
If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied… — Charles Spurgeon
Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong. — Yasmin Mogahed
She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went… — E. M. Forster
To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment. — Pope Francis
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief… — Cynthia Ozick
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… — Thomas Carlyle
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The vague torment of ... ambition. — Emile Zola
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too… — Sam Raimi
It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing. — Alan Sugar
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that… — Benjamin Spock
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to… — Frederick Lenz
Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that… — Elizabeth von Arnim
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. — Max Beckmann
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?"… — Richard P. Feynman

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