Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you. — Ogden Nash
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and… — May Sarton
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch,… — John Dryden
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. — Alfred de Musset
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated… — Bergen Evans
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. — Caryl Rivers
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. — Samuel Clarke
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes… — Ishmael
It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to… — Golda Meir
The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others. — Thiruvalluvar
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a… — Andrew Solomon
Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and… — Saint Francis de Sales
Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for… — John William Draper
If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible… — Richard Carrier
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of… — Douglas Bloch
Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one… — Thomas A. Edison
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles… — George Bernard Shaw
Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us… — James Freeman Clarke
How delicious is pleasure after torment! — Pierre Corneille

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