Quotes About Torment

He stamped me with a belief in justice, then drenched me in culpability, and I wouldn't wish such torment even on a mosquito.

The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a full life has to offer, everything that makes living pleasant.

Pepperleigh always read the foreign news -- the news of things that he couldn't alter -- as a form of wild and stimulating torment.

If he tormented himself with unattainable desires, he would cripple his grasp on the law which enabled him to survive. His imagination could kill him, lead or seduce or trick him into suicide: seeing all the things he could not have would make him despair.

Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

Hell is the inability to love.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

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

To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

only the desire to produce suffering, for the sake of suffering. That is the very essence of evil.

If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced—then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that. The good is whatever stops such things from happening.

I was simultaneously tormented by the fact of the Cold War. It obsessed me. It gave me nightmares. It drove me into the desert, into the long night of the human soul. I could not understand how it had come to pass that the world's two great factions aimed mutual assured destruction at each other. Was one system just as arbitrary and corrupt as the other? Was it a mere matter of opinion? Were all value structures merely the clothing of power? Was everyone crazy?

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.

Todo suceso feliz le aflige o atiza su congoja; destinada a sufrir, es el verdugo implacable de sí misma.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Chill'd with tears, kill'd with fears, endless torments dwell about thee: yet who would live, and live without thee!

Besides, it is my pleasure to watch you suffer.

Watching Knotcher torment Casey while the rest of us just sat and watched filled me not only with self-loathing, but with disgust for my whole species. If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?

This Irish war, small as it may seem now, will, if it is persisted in, corrupt and eventually ruin not only your army, but your Empire itself. What right has England to torment and demoralise Ireland?

The damned don't cry.

The torments of my mind and the source of my hell now fit into a prescribed form. They had always had a name.

Hell is a place of unrelieved torment and horrible misery… a place of impenetrable darkness… a place of fire… a place of unrelieved torment for both body and soul. Hell will be horrible for everybody there, but some people will suffer more than others.19 —JOHN MACARTHUR

Hell is going to be eternity filled with grief and pain, an unquenchable fire, according to the Bible.31 —FRANKLIN GRAHAM

Hades is a place of torment and agony…. The judgment and Hell will be more tolerable for some than for others…. The fact that Hell will not be the same for everybody in no way implies that it will be a good place for anybody. People in Hell will be separated from God and all that is good forever. As much as I dislike the idea, I do believe that the lake of fire (Hell) is a real, literal place.9 —CHARLES STANLEY