Quotes About Torment

Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever this is, it feels like a mortal wound.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. I too was wretchedly floundering around, tightly closed into the bag of myself.

She recognized that great love carries a price of great torment if it ends, but it also bestows a greater and more valuable gift.

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.

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.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

It really expresses a man in pain.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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

What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

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

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

Power is not pleasure, power is pain.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me; Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me. Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers, Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence Worse than Abiram's. Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, am Buried above ground.

It was a place if not hell then certainly the room across the hall from it.

Christ did not redeem and save poor souls by sitting in majesty on his heavenly throne, but by hanging on the shameful cross, under the tormenting hand of man's fury and God's just wrath.

The most loving women are the women who will test you the most. She wants you to be your fullest, most magnificent self. She won't settle for anything less. She knows it is true of you. She knows in your deepest heart you are free, you are Shiva. Anything less than that she will torment. And, as you know, she's quite good at it.

HELL is the numbing of the soul.