Torment Quotes

361 Torment quotes by 286 unique authors

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants. — Saint Augustine
We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are… — Craig Newmark
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates… — Gary Zukav
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down… — Gerald Kersh
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent… — Georges Rouault
Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and… — Federico Garcia Lorca
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the Lord Himself, you… — Ephrem the Syrian
We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always… — Ken Wilber
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the… — Rudyard Kipling
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation,… — John Donne
All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not… — Jean Gebser
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet… — Thomas Jefferson
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too… — Alexander Alekhine
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread… — Henry Ward Beecher
Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink,… — Martin Luther
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be… — Quentin Crisp

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