Tormenting Quotes
46 quotes by 40 authors
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You…
— Vernon Howard
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You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.
— Milarepa
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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective,…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of…
— Laurence Sterne
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
— Mikhail Lermontov
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I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a…
— William Banting
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Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no…
— Jack White
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What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice…
— Charles Baxter
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The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can…
— Alice Miller
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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you…
— Samuel Johnson
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Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse…
— Edwin Louis Cole
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"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
— Thomas Hood
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they…
— John Henry Newman
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... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned…
— Larry Atchley Jr.
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All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we…
— Francois Fenelon
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