Torments Quotes

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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. — C.J. Sansom
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates… — Gary Zukav
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the Lord Himself, you… — Ephrem the Syrian
We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always… — Ken Wilber
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet… — Thomas Jefferson
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be… — Quentin Crisp
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. — Peter Lewis Allen
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds… — Thomas Aquinas
God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other. — Thomas Boston
Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful… — Saint Francis de Sales
A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one… — Caesarius of Arles
God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments. — Katherine Howe
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It… — Paul Valery
If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied… — Charles Spurgeon
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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