Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. — Epicurus
Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and… — Mark Hoppus
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. — Thomas Jefferson
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms… — Norm MacDonald
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. — Charles Manson
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. — Claude Monet
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do… — Laurence Olivier
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. — William Penn
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. — Marquis de Sade
Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in… — Dan Savage
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory… — Clara Schumann
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self… — William Shakespeare
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice,… — Albert Schweitzer
On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in… — David Sedaris
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our â€˜naturalâ€™ condition. — Bell Hooks
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under… — C.S. Lewis
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and… — Soren Kierkegaard

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