Quotes About Torment

Comprendió claramente que el castigo de aquellos atormentados espíritus consistía en una ansia infinita de aliviar las desgracias humanas, careciendo de poder para ello.

Vivían atormentados. Carentes de todo salvo de obscuridad. Demasiado tarde, ¿era demasiado tarde para ver la luz?

Depuis une éternité j'étais rongé par un tourment opaque - une espèce de conviction floue qu'on m'avait pris quelque chose et que j'avais cheminé comme un somnambule pendant une partie de mon existence au bord d'un abîme sans fond. Et jamais je n'étais parvenu à en élucider l'origine.

Rosina is one of that red-haired tribe which is even more repulsive in its physical characteristics than the others; the men are pigeon-chested and have long, skinny necks with protuberant Adam's apples. Everything about them is freckled, and their whole life through they suffer the torments of lust, these men, and fight an unending, losing battle against their desires, on the rack of a constant, loathsome fear for their health.

for a week she has been tormented, she burns to write something, gentle warmth emanates from her whole body, but still nothing comes of it. Besides, at the same time she is also busy burning old books, manuals, professional papers, theoretical volumes--because they keep her from doing the one thing that now seems urgent and right to her: shouting her loud hymn of ecstatic pleasure, breaching the tide of the old tongue's hard blare.

His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull.Flames burst forth from his skull like a corolla,shrieking like voices: -Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!

Hell is not just a place of torment; additionally it's a place of separation from God.

No one had to convince me about the reality of hell. It wasn't a fiery pit. It lived and thrived in the human breast and consumed its host from night to morning.

Who but the devil lives like a king in the middle of hell

You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.

It was like crawling into the asshole of Satan.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I am never better than when I am mad: then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.

Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.

Why may we not suppose, that the great Father of al is pleased with variety of devotion; and that the greatest offence we can act, is that by which we seek to torment and render each other miserable?

You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Back home, he sleeps in Clarence's bed. Then he moves across and arranges the pillows beside the ghost of his wife. All three of them lie down together. The pulse of Louis Armstrong sounds out from the record player, the notes moving tenderly through his torment.

If there was a heaven, was it nor founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?

If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?