Quotes About Torment

At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. For what can be imagin'd more tormenting, than to seek with eagerness, what for ever flies us; and seek for it in a place, where 'tis impossible it can ever exist?

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

She will be your living hell.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

That man touch a hundred? He looks as if he was dead and in hell now!

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Cada vez que te sonreía como dices, sentías que te ponían en tu lugar. Sin duda el sufrimiento era atroz pero también era como un retorno. La hija pródiga en la casa del tormento.

Horror of checking for you in the screams of my poem.

Me expulsa, me mantiene a distancia, me impide, me evita, me encadena, me hace danzar, me asola, me afea mi soledad, me corroe, me corrompe, me martiriza, me hace sufrir, padecer, llorar todo el día y gran parte de la noche. Y no lo sabe, y no se cree responsable y no quiere saber que sabe que en mí se venga de lo que no es.

Then she would faint once more and come to once more, only to relive new torments. My heart cannot bear to describe her ordeal any longer: An overwhelming sorrow makes me skip to the end of that journey, which lasted for more than four hours, after which we will still have some more agonizing hours to endure. Let us go now to the castle where the unhappy girl was being taken.

While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

I cannot help it, — in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Malgré moi, l'infini me tourmente

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had but another life to live, and that God would but try them once again; one crying out of this neglect of duty, and another of his loitering and trifling, when he should have been labouring for his life; what manner of person would you have been after such a sight as this ? (284)

He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world's greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.

To be half of one can only be a torment when the other half is gone.