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Tortures Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to…
- They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves…
More Tortures Quotes
- We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
- From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. — Lucretius
- Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death.… — Paramahansa Yogananda
- Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me!… — Rajneesh
- A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but… — 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… — W. Somerset Maugham
- But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I… — Flannery O'Connor
- Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental. — Ogden Nash