Tortured Quotes

268 Tortured quotes by 234 unique authors

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters. — Halle Berry
I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships. — Scott Caan
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. — Deepak Chopra
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough,… — George Clooney
I was arrested three times and tortured once. — Paulo Coelho
The more I know the less tortured I am. — Alanis Morissette
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf -… — Alistair Cooke
There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is… — John F. Kennedy
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few… — Bertrand Russell
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point… — Richard Dawkins
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if… — Josephine Bakhita
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;… — Rudolph Rummel
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured,… — Saint John Chrysostom
We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say... — Margaret George
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. — Rajneesh
The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back to… — Unknown Author
If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not. — Unknown Author
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. — Albert Camus
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace

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