Tortures Quotes

83 quotes by 77 authors

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when… — Sri Chinmoy
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects,… — Soren Kierkegaard
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. — Waylon Jennings
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.… — Flannery O'Connor
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to… — Thomas Browne
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself. — Publilius Syrus
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the… — James McGreevey
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental. — Ogden Nash
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have… — Francois Arago
Fancy tortures more people than does reality — Ouida
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they… — Joseph Addison
There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses… — Oscar Romero
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to… — Asger Jorn
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance… — Erasmus Darwin
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or… — Theodore Roosevelt

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