Tormenting Quotes

46 quotes by 40 authors

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
You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves. — Milarepa
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
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
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles. — Thomas Hood
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
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
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
... 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
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.
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
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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