Tortures Quotes

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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
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
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. — Lucretius
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
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
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
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
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
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
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. — Paulo Coelho
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
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
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet
The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict. — Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor
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
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
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
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
...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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