Tortured Quotes

268 Tortured quotes by 234 unique authors

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval.… — Ariana Grande
I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. — Claire Danes
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are… — Alan Dershowitz
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were… — Fred Durst
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are… — Nathan Fillion
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. — Marilyn Hacker
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images… — Damien Hirst
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming… — Bell Hooks
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. — Carl Jung
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

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