Tortured Quotes

268 Tortured quotes by 234 unique authors

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. — Jessica Lange
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. — Denis Leary
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method… — Josh McDowell
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step,… — Charles Schumer
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I… — Hunter S. Thompson
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's… — John Thorn
If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go… — Jesse Ventura
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we… — Vivienne Westwood
Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a… — Lucinda Williams
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. — John Zorn
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

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