Torments Quotes

78 quotes by 69 authors

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! — Joseph Addison
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid… — Lord Chesterfield
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was… — Jacques Charles
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. — Colley Cibber
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all… — Samuel Clarke
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom… — William Blake
There is always something missing that torments me. — Camille Claudel
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us. — Teresa of Avila
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil… — Ignatius of Antioch
If fortune torments me, hope contents me. — William Shakespeare
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that… — Julio Cortazar
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. — Alfred de Musset
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. — Danielle Steel
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the… — Samuel Johnson
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — E L Doctorow
I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left… — Lydia Davis
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to… — Joseph de Maistre

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