Quotes About Torment

I pledge my shade to the eternal torment of the one called Gaea!

O me, this place is hell.

There is no limit to suffering.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

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

During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.

Tout Occidental tourmenté fait penser à un héros dostoïevskien qui aurait un compte en banque.

What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles — what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.

Shakespeare si Dostoievski îÈ›i las? în suflet un regret chinuitor: acela de a nu fi sfânt sau criminal. Cele dou? forme ale autodistrugerii

A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not expect. All during our apprehensions, we lived through it in advance, and when it happens these past torments are added to the present ones, and together they form a mass whose weight is intolerable.

Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me, but not to one of my friends. How to convince him? I cannot lend him my sensations; yet only they would have the power to persuade him, to give him that additional dose of ill-being he has so insistently asked for all this time.

The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.

We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment -- a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the best camouflaged of all.

Everything which borders on torment wakens the psychologist in each of us

When I torment myself a little too much for not working, I tell myself that I might just as well be dead and that then I would be working still less...

for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.

Every tormented "Occidental" suggests a Dostoyevskian hero with a bank account.

We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the best camoulaged of all.

The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always -- take any form -- drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Sleep not, dream not; this bright dayWill not, cannot last for aye;Bliss like thine is bought by yearsDark with torment and with tears.

Terror made me cruel . . .

While the root of all the absurdities that torment the world, belief in God, remains intact, it will never fail to bring forth new offspring.

Even though they are male, because they are Dalits, they have to be like dogs with their tails rolled up when they are in the fields, and dealing with their landlords, There is no way they can show their strength in those circumstances. So they show it at home on their wives and children. But then, is it the fate of our women to be tormented both outside their houses and within?