Quotes About Torment

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

He had power only to feel, and feeling was torment.

The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion. Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicídio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente fraqueza. Pois, para ser sincero, é mais fácil morrer do que suportar com firmeza uma vida de tormentos.

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.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.

There is not a scrabble word for how bad I feel." -We Were Liars

Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell.

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

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.

The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime...

Why do I so often greet the night out here?' he asked himself. He did not feel Ghanima withdraw her hand. 'You know why you torment yourself this way,' she said. He heard the gentle chiding in her voice. Yes, he knew. The answer lay there in his awareness, obvious: Because that great known-unknown within moves me like a wave. He felt the cresting of his past as though he rode a surfboard.

2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.

El hombre martirizado por sus demonios se venga ciegamente en su prójimo

I waver, continually fly to the summit of the mountain, but cannot stay up there for more than a moment. Others waver too, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught up by the kinsman who walks beside them for that purpose. But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of dying.

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

Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned.