Tormented Quotes

130 quotes by 114 authors

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right! — Joyce Meyer
Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in… — Dan Savage
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. — Antonio Tabucchi
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never… — Elie Wiesel
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage… — George Santayana
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. — Dante Alighieri
What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers! — Samuel Beckett
But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation,… — James Joyce
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. — Rumi
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? — Pablo Neruda
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy,… — Coco Chanel
I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and… — Lisa See
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human… — Jonathan Carroll
I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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