Tortured Quotes

268 Tortured quotes by 234 unique authors

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your… — Angela Carter
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? — Khalil Gibran
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he… — Desmond Tutu
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. — Unknown Author
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. — Andre Gide
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and… — Aldous Huxley
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and… — Khalil Gibran
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion… — Flann O'Brien
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the… — Terry Pratchett
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and… — Sarah Dessen
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned… — Anthony Trollope
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in… — John Steinbeck
I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. — Laurie Halse Anderson
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even… — Vladimir Nabokov

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