Quotes About Torment

Months of torment, relieved at the end by a single minute of good cheer. What more could anyone want?

I'm made for misery, misery, misery , I'm made to be destroyed !

If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.

What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?

He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.

You can't imagine what it's like when every moment you're conscious you're in the most frightful pain.

All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.

She thought, I shall die of misery and pain.

How could he assess her like this because of something which had happened in the past? The past was never real for Dora. The notion that Paul might keep her past alive to torment her with, now occurred to her for the first time.

Sometimes he felt like a victim constantly revived in order to suffer more.

Ordinary consciousness simply becomes pain.

Little pictures out of hell.

He was conscious of his body as a heavy cold horrible container. He had the feeling, coming to him as the memory of a dream, of being a prisoner waiting to be tortured. The extremity of pain was yet to come. And even now he was denied to comfort of self-pitying misery and warm tears.

Per me [la creazione] è come una giornata d'uragano quando la tramontana s'abbatte fischiando dai monti. L'arte per me è un tormento, angoscioso quando il lavoro va male, estasiante quando va bene: ma sempre mi possiede senza scampo. Al termine della mia giornata, sono un guscio vuoto: tutto ciò che v'era in me, è passato nel marmo o nell'affresco. Quindi non mi resta più nulla da dare altrove.

She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

willpower. He recalled very clearly his years of fear, the torment at school, and the superhuman effort he had made to study a profession that required an evil streak completely missing in him. He

Continuaron acariciándose sin deseo y atormentándose con las súplicas y los recuerdos. Saboreaban la amargura de una despedida que presentían, pero que todavía podían confundir con una reconciliación.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Hell is indefinite.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.

Ah, well...hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

Un muto de fuego solo percibe una cosa: la agonía. Ni vista, ni sonido, ni otra sensación que no sea el implacable ardor de la carne.