Tormented Quotes

130 quotes by 114 authors

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which… — Vincent de Paul
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the… — Albert Einstein
Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he… — Martha Grimes
I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and… — Cecily von Ziegesar
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type… — W. Somerset Maugham
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of… — Abraham Lincoln
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. — Haim Ginott
In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if… — James A. Baldwin
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. — Joseph Joubert
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a… — Joseph Joubert
It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with… — Chris Cleave
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all… — Jane Austen
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of… — Paul Theroux
But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a… — Guru Nanak
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews

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