Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a… — Anne Stuart
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or… — Nicole Krauss
I know he would die if you died, Luce — Lauren Kate
He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It… — Lauren Kate
When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart… — Lauren Kate
He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self,… — Hermann Hesse
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of… — Vladimir Nabokov
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed… — Boris Pasternak
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame. — Jack London
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and… — D. H. Lawrence
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you? — Elizabeth Hoyt
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He… — Jonathan Franzen
And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Weâ€™re seeking â€” imperfectly at every turn, no doubt â€” an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all… — Brian D. McLaren
At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns… — Cate Tiernan
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment. — Friedrich Schiller
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.… — Marquis de Sade
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of… — Hermann Hesse
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician. — William Shakespeare

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