Quotes About Being Tormented

#1. What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Samuel Richardson

#2. If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

Stormie O'martian

#3. What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

Samuel Beckett

#4. It was easy to blame people for the misery of life rather than blaming the sand. Yelling at the sand got you nowhere. People yelled back, and at least that was a response. An acknowledgment. Being tormented and simultaneously ignored was the worst.

Hugh Howey

#5. The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Plutarch

#6. You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

Grant Cardone

#7. Good gracious, Arthur, - I should say Mr Clennam, far more proper - the climb we have had to get up here and how ever to get down

Charles Dickens

#8. The madness in the heart is the state of mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Camille Claudel

#10. Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

Christopher Marlowe

#11. It is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen

#12. Back in the present, these thoughts tormented Mark for at least another hour - and he knew if he dreamed it would only get worse. He was scared of being scared. He drifted off despite his efforts. Sleep came over him like cold, crashing waves.

James Dashner

#13. Hooray for the good people of Genoa

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#14. The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

Edith Wharton

#15. Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

Steve Aylett

#16. What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!

John R. Rice

#17. The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

Nick Hornby

#18. He swallows, keeping his tormented eyes on mine. "I hate this. I hate what it's doing to me. I hate that I'm tired of doing the right thing."
This time I swallow roughly and tilt my head back, boldly pushing my hips into his, "Then stop being right.

L.A. Bressett

#19. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Horace

#21. When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

Fefe Dobson

#22. ...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Consider - if reading had not been taught, Mrs. Radcliffe would have written in vain - or perhaps might not have written at all.

Jane Austen

#23. She had been bullied and tormented by Leena for a long time and she wasn't going to take it anymore. She was tired of being pushed around. She wanted to be strong for herself and be the type of person who her daughter would've wanted to have as a mother.

Valenciya Lyons

#24. I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

Avicii

#25. I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.

Leland Stanford

#26. Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

Laozi

#27. Some call it progress, regeneration, rebirth. Many people call it other things.

John Stanley