Quotes About Torment

Edsall insisted, "Tolstoy is the writer I most enjoy." "No, no, Dostoyevsky is superior," Oppenheimer said. "He gets to the soul and torment of man.

For bleeding inwards and shut vapours strangle soonest and oppress most.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

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.

He wanted to go. He hurt so much. He wanted it all to end, to go away. Everything. He just wanted it to stop.

There always seemed to be a reason Kaladin survived when those he'd tried to help died. Some men might have seen that as a blessing, but he saw it as an ironic kind of torment.

I see with sympathy The swollen veins on his brow, showing How exhausting it is to be evil.

When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.

His secretary of many years' standing, Theodora Bosanquet, was struck by this persistent aspect of the Jamesian sensibility: 'When he walked out of the refuge of his study and into the world and looked about him, he saw a place of torment, where creatures of prey perpetually thrust their claws into the quivering flesh of the doomed, defenceless children of light.

You look upset—you've certainly been tormented. You're not well.

Charlotte was in pain, Charlotte was in torment, but he himself had given her reason enough for that; and, in respect to the rest of the whole matter of her obligation to follow her husband, that personage and she, Maggie, had so shuffled away every link between consequence and cause that the intention remained, like some famous poetic line in a dead language subject to varieties of interpretation. What

Success is a bitter fruit: sooner or later, what you have created turns against you, becomes your torment.

Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for the tormented.

nameless miseries of the numberless mortals

All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust. Old man of oceans! of all this fiery life of thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes!

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At its core, it is a story that has a timeless quality with echoes of Cervantes.

The new arrivals from Eastern Europe were ragged, dirt-poor, culturally energetic, toughened by years of torment, idealistic, and socialistic.