Torments Quotes
78 quotes by 69 authors
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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
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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
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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
— Alcibiades
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Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
— Colley Cibber
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(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
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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
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There is always something missing that torments me.
— Camille Claudel
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
— Gautama Buddha
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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
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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
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If fortune torments me, hope contents me.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
— Alfred de Musset
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I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
— Danielle Steel
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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
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And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.
— E L Doctorow
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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
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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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