Torments Quotes

78 Torments quotes by 67 unique authors

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
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too… — Sam Raimi
Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that… — Elizabeth von Arnim
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. — Alfred de Musset
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated… — Bergen Evans
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. — Samuel Clarke
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes… — Ishmael
If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible… — Richard Carrier
Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one… — Thomas A. Edison
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory… — Clara Schumann

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