Fairytale-romance Quote by Mary Morgan

“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the…

— Emil M. Cioran

“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind of man…

— Victor Hugo

“Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die, And whirl upon the wheel, and hug and…

— Edwin Arnold

“All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back…

— Franz Kafka

“Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.”

— Anne Elisabeth Stengl

“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond…

— Daphne du Maurier

“But that was before the curse, before the shadow fell across the garden of Adam, before the shadow fell across the heart of Adam.…

— Max Lucado

“It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of…

— Patricia Highsmith

“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch,…

— Aeschylus

“God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.”

— Timothy W. Tron