Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer. — Nadeem Aslam
The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. "Who are you?" "I'm... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I... built the cellar for… — Derek Landy
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still… — Stanislaw Lem
Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beautiful women are the torment of my existence. — Markus Zusak
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together,… — Emile M. Cioran
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them… — Anna Sewell
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. — Jane Austen
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I… — Philip Larkin
What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates… — Stanislaw Lem
There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot… — Ivo Andric
Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast.College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment as… — Kiersten White
She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to… — Isabel Allende
There are some peopleâ€”people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward… — Cassandra Clare
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of… — May Sarton
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. — Giacomo Casanova
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically,… — Louise GluÌˆck

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