Torment Quotes
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.
Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.
The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.
Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast.College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment as long as possible.
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.
I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.