Tormented Quotes

130 quotes by 114 authors

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep… — Edgar Allan Poe
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure. "You have to… — Lisa Kleypas
If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what… — Damon Galgut
Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible… — Sam Harris
There is no way Iâ€™m going out in public like this!â€ It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out… — Jeaniene Frost
It was nice to see someone who appreciated her for her character, no matter how disgusted Christian was by the idea of ANYONE dating his… — Richelle Mead
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. — William Saroyan
..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by… — Doris Lessing
I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You… — Deb Caletti
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English." "But Italian is so moving," Dain said. "To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi."… — Loretta Chase
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all… — Franz Kafka
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get… — Frederick Douglass
Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why… — Lauren Kate
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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