Tortures Quotes

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How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being… — Stephen Fry
Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are… — Alexandre Dumas-fils
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf
I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about for a long… — Derek Landy
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her… — John Green
I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things,… — Joanne Greenberg
I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others… — Tennessee Williams
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no… — Mother Teresa
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go… — Eleanor Roosevelt
As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if… — Wilhelm Reich
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the… — Bertrand Russell
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. — John Strachan
How could such an absurd and unfair society that torments with self alienation the human being, already completely alienated be still saved? How could a… — Sorin Cerin
I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well — Catullus
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries… — Juvenal
Wheeled in on a cart, lying dormant not dead, Hospital of immortality, butcher their patients bloody red, Taken to a dark room, fear of impending… — Young Dro
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise… — Marquis De Sade

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