Torment Quotes

I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

I know he would die if you died, Luce

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.

Greatness is its own torment.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.