Quotes About A Tortured Mind

#1. ... my private thoughts, feelings I captured with a tortured mind and hammered into sentences I shoved into paragraphs, ideas I pinned together with punctuation marks that serve no function but to determine where one thought ends and another begins.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. The Labyrinth, a walled garden where humans tortured plants and flowers into growing in straight lines and sharp corners so unnatural that it hurt the mind to see, was east of Thorn's court, on the very edge of the Center Kingdom.

Jon Evans

#3. I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.

Derek Hough

#4. Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.

Marcel Proust

#5. Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.

Zooey Deschanel

#6. But they fight in the name of the creator."
"I don't care if they fight in the name of broccoli. The goal remains the same.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. The realization was becoming clearer: How could she expect others to trust her with the intricacies of their lives if she was not not willing to reveal hers?

Sarah E. Ladd

#8. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.

T.H. White

#9. Who you singing for, Beautiful?

Andrea Randall

#10. It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

Ellen Page

#11. Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

Ben Shapiro

#12. That is how they are. That is how the Cold Peace has made them. Afraid of what is new and different, and filled with hatred like ice. She

Cassandra Clare

#13. It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

Ayn Rand

#14. Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

Katy Perry

#16. Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.

Hermann Oberth

#17. Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

Anna Paquin

#18. I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind.

Stephanie Courtney

#19. I have no flaws, I'm perfect at being imperfect.

Krystyna Faroe

#20. It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better.

Sebastien De Castell

#21. I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind;
I want somebody who has a tortured soul ... some of the time

Ani DiFranco