Top 100 Quotes About Torment
#1. There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Mary Augusta Ward
#2. Our tongues can't compete with the rapid thinking of our brains, our words come out slow and slurred. The pen is our haven. There is a lot of fear buried into that little pen. It holds all of our agony, our torment, our blood and our heaven.
Coco J. Ginger
#3. Rampage frowns. "If you can't even hear about it, how are you going to watch the fight?" Bucket on head. Facecloth over eyes. Torment has given me lots of options.
Sarah Castille
#4. I will tie you up, sometimes in very intricate, time-consuming bondage. I will suspend you from things. I will play with and tease and torment your bound and helpless body.
Sayara St. Clair
#5. Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#6. There had been something more they could do to him. One final torment the world had reserved just for Kaladin.
And it was called Bridge Four.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving
#8. The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance.
Tayeb Salih
#9. Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?
Hermann Hesse
#10. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18
Timothy Grant
#11. Loneliness is simply the felt experience of our "Obediential Potency." In our loneliness, "in the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable,"18 we experience our nature, learn the reason why God had made us, and are pushed out of ourselves in order to move toward that end.
Ronald Rolheiser
#12. What did he see, I wonder? What avenue opened before him? A sudden way through, an escape from all the torment? Or was it just the venal act of a selfish child, wanting to somehow punish the woman standing before him ... just passing the guilt along, as cowards will do. Well,
Steven Erikson
#13. 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
Emil Cioran
#14. 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.
Hermann Hesse
#15. 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.
Franz Kafka
#16. Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.
Dan Savage
#17. ONE HUNDRED TIMES have I been on the point of embracing
her. Heavens! what a torment it is to see so much loveliness
passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold
of it! And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts.
Do not children touch everything they see?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. He had power only to feel, and feeling was torment.
Ambrose Bierce
#19. There'd been rules agreed upon for these particular types of torment sessions. I was rarely restrained, but I was to remain absolutely still. I was to keep my arms and legs where he'd placed them, or where I'd laid them when the session began.
Joseph Lance Tonlet
#20. A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him.
Ford Madox Ford
#21. The happy place
Imparts to thee no happiness, no joy
Rather inflames thy torment, representing
Lost bliss, to thee no more communicable;
So never more in Hell than when in Heaven.
John Milton
#22. The madness was gone, but now I knew the torment of sanity. My
Rhiannon Frater
#23. Let us touch each other
while we still have hands,
palms, forearms, elbows ...
Let us love each other for misery,
torture each other, torment,
disfigure, maim,
to remember better,
to part with less pain.
Vera Pavlova
#24. I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
Don Meyer
#25. And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.
Nancy E. Turner
#26. Does the presence of the other, who yesterday morning felt almost like and intruder, become ever more necessary because it shields us from our own hell
so that the very person who causes our torment by daybreak is the same who'll relieve it at night?
Andre Aciman
#28. High School. Society's bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.
Chris Colfer
#29. As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels looked like torment and insanity, I collected some proverbs
William Blake
#30. It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
Simone De Beauvoir
#33. In torment, there was release.
In the darkness, there was light.
In solitude, there were companions.
C.C. Humphreys
#34. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow
and torment me.
Sylvia Plath
#36. The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour I could breathe again and live and face existence, without having to suffer torment, fear or shame.
Hermann Hesse
#37. The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.
Isaac Newton
#38. Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.
Perry Stone
#39. I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Marquis De Sade
#40. 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.
Russell M. Nelson
#41. Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.
Wilhelm Reich
#42. He was not the Empire - not every moment of oppression and indignity and torment she had ever suffered. He was an Imperial, a petty, spiteful, scared little man who'd forgotten his own atrocities.
Alexander Freed
#43. Wrath takes hold of you.
The trumpet sounds.
The graves quake.
And your heart
Raised
From the quietness of ashes
Into the torment of flames
Quakes.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#44. Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
Yasmin Mogahed
#45. Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.
Isabel Allende
#46. Later on, absence taught me far more bitter lessons: that you get accustomed to absence, that the greatest abatement of the self, the most humiliating torment is to feel that you are no longer tormented by absence.
Marcel Proust
#47. If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane Austen
#48. All he knew was that the rage was still there, eating inside him, not with the slow stealth of a cancer, but with the rapid, careless ravening of a weasel gnawing at his entrails, or the constant alimentary torment that drives on the shark to his incessant feeding until only death gives him rest.
Chet Williamson
#49. I am just wondering how this world would be if everyone done their job competently and efficiently. I am so tired of imbeciles. I do believe their function on this earth is to torment those who have common sense.
Patricia H. Graham
#50. The woman never used one word when she could torment ten.
Karen Maitland
#51. I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.
Vladimir Nabokov
#52. What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
Max Beckmann
#53. I feel the heaviness of nightmares
even though I am awake.
How weary I am, how sleepless
and hopeless - there is no escape
from the torment
of wishes.
Margarita Engle
#54. This is torment for me, Eva. I can't focus. I can't sleep. I lose my temper at the slightest irritants. I'm in hell without you.
Sylvia Day
#55. The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence.
Jurgen Moltmann
#56. 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.
Josef Sudek
#57. As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude ... Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.
-DONNE
Oliver Sacks
#58. I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love between a man and a woman that drove them to torment and suspicion.
Daphne Du Maurier
#59. The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
John C. Hawkes
#60. So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#61. Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
John Donne
#64. Bullies want to isolate you, so they can torment you & then make you feel bad about yourself when you want to tell someone. Don't listen to their head games. When you're sick you always tell someone. So if bullies make you feel bad and sick, tell somebody too!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#65. I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself.
Tasha Smith
#66. Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.
Maria Edgeworth
#67. The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.
Kobo Abe
#68. The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.
Marquis De Sade
#69. Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Plutarch
#70. 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.
Thomas Kyd
#71. Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
Claude Monet
#72. Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Franz Grillparzer
#73. The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and peace, as well as loneliness, sadness and torment. These all are specific lessons you choose to rediscover your divine identity.
Raphael Zernoff
#74. That's the funniest thing of all about attraction. It can be so torturous, but you can look forward to it so much. It's an exquisite kind of torment.
Lauren Blakely
#75. It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
Andrew Sean Greer
#76. Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
Seneca The Younger
#77. That was how it was when you loved someone: their well-being was all you thought about, if they were fine, you felt fine. That was the amazing thing about love too: when you held someone in your heart, any hardship or wrong you experienced felt like nothing but a sweet torment. Si
Tang Qi
#78. Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper
Tony Alleyne
#79. Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life.
Debasish Mridha
#80. They say vengeance taken will tear the heart and torment the conscious. If there's any truth to it, then I now know with certainty that the path I'm on is the right one.
Emily Thorne
#81. And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton
#82. She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears, she knew that's exactly what she would do until the war was over and she could crawl into a quiet, dark corner and mourn for the part of her that had died with him.
Jaclyn A. Wilson
#83. I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
Joseph Haydn
#84. You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.
Robertson Davies
#85. 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.
Jane Austen
#86. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to need it, to feel like you can't go on without it, only to have it dangled right in front of your face? That torture, that mental torment, is worse than any physical pain you may perceive, angel
J.M. Darhower
#87. Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory
#88. Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
Mahavira
#89. Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.
Molly Ringle
#90. Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#91. You're my grand and my torment ... you are my life and my love.
S.L. Naeole
#92. I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead.
Theodore Dalrymple
#93. no correspondence is intended between any institutions or characters in this book and any real institutions or people living, dead, or wandering the night in ghostly torment.
Douglas Adams
#94. Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
Emily Bronte
#96. DON PEDRO Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?
LEONATO No, and swears she never will; that's her torment.
CLAUDIO 'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says. 'Shall I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him?
William Shakespeare
#97. A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still baking oven (so Pierius in his Hieroglyph compares it), another hell.
Robert Burton
#98. There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#99. As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment.
Anne Rice
#100. It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
William Shakespeare
