Torments Quotes

78 Torments quotes by 67 unique authors

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides… — Daphne du Maurier
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer. — Nadeem Aslam
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still… — Stanislaw Lem
Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates… — Stanislaw Lem
There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward… — Cassandra Clare
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of… — May Sarton
Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. — John Milton
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper. — John Milton
The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when… — Unknown Author
I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me. — Clinton Sparks
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with… — Peter Lombard
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before… — Eyvind Johnson
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. — James Arthur Baldwin
How could such an absurd and unfair society that torments with self alienation the human being, already completely alienated be still saved? How could a… — Sorin Cerin
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man — Friedrich Nietzsche
Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard on And no one will pardon the snake Look who invents him and later torments him Then… — Christine Anderson
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived. — Superman

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