Tortured Quotes

268 Tortured quotes by 234 unique authors

He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was enraptured. It was… — Richelle Mead
Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts. — R.L. LaFevers
She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. — Lev Grossman
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured… — Derek Landy
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man,… — George Santayana
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -… — Richard Dawkins
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would… — Mira Sorvino
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind. — Unknown Author
Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. — Noam Chomsky
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing… — Peter Baynham
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to… — Glen Duncan
The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in… — Tim Murphy
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful. — Jeff Tweedy
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something… — David K. Shipler
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.… — Theodore White
Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability,… — Sorin Cerin
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured… — William Shakespeare
Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success… — Robinson Jeffers
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
No matter what she does, the pain will not stop. Her father orders her to be tortured and tells her it is for her own… — Superman
God does not need anything. God does not need our worship. He does not benefit by our worship. We do. When we do bad things… — Babloo
In Hollywood you have to be careful if you go above a six, then you're considered fat. I'm considered to be, I hope, an actress,… — Anne Hathaway
Do you ever get tortured by your own mind? — RockyMills

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