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Torment Quotes by Stanislaw Lem
- 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…
- 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…
More Torment Quotes
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live… — Joseph Addison
- The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne
- In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or… — Lord Chesterfield
- The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran
- Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. — Emile M. Cioran
- Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Unknown Author
- What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns… — Arnulf Øverland
- I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give… — Phillip Lopate
- It is silliness to live when to live is torment. — William Shakespeare