Torment Quotations

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

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.

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

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

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.

Nicotine withdrawal was very much like trying to s*** a melon. The pressure was remarkable! Seemingly an impossible task. I would break out into sweats, cough, curse, yell, and wake up periodically throughout the night from vicious nightmares. Three full weeks of endless torment without relief. The incommodiousness of it all.

If they are too anxious and do not want to go through the torment of watching me play again, I will retire.

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.

Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

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.

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

We will examine all possibilities and hopefully arrive at a resolution that could prevent Andrea from going through the torment of being subjected to the evidence of this case. We all know how horrendous it was to hear this evidence.

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

There is always something missing that torments me.

you begin to torment and torture the First Amendment.

The tape shows experimenters using their power over the monkeys to torture and torment them, while lab supervisors stand by or even join in,

We all want Great Love because this is how we are built. We so often use this expression of the soul mates. We all want it to be true because, when we truly find our soul mates, we all want to end forever this continuous torment which is our own existence. Every time, the result is cruel and precise. The torment of our life will never end as long as we live.

Vast numbers of people are still in torment in Rwanda, ... But few remain as vulnerable as the children living in parentless households. They are the most marginalized of the poor in an area of almost unimaginable suffering and want.

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished

In my TV job as a police detective, I have to deal with some pretty cold-hearted characters. But I can't think of anything more heartless than to torment and kill animals in the name of fashion.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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

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

The vague torment of ... ambition.

There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation. They were placed perilously close to modernity, but they could not partake of it.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Why must women torment me so?

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Greatness is its own torment.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.

A cough is something that you yourself can't help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Children: a torment and nothing more.

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.

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

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

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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 more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.