Tortures Quotes
83 quotes by 77 authors
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
— Geraldine Brooks
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the…
— Isaac Asimov
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
— Lucretius
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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to…
— Isaac Asimov
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I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were…
— Erich Fromm
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire,…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete…
— Rajneesh
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Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
— Paulo Coelho
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease…
— Paracelsus
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If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures. What would a…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Eddington
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Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
— Jules Michelet
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The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.
— Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and…
— George Cheyne
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold…
— Samuel Johnson
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If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is…
— John Foxe
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...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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