Quotes About Torment

Kitty looked into his face which was so near her own, and long after—for years after—that look so full of love which she then gave him, and which met with no response from him, cut her to the heart with tormenting shame.

The doctor declared that his physical sufferings were terrible, and he was right; but more horrible even than his physical sufferings were his moral sufferings, his greatest torment.

Sin embargo, nos queda un medio de salvación: la sangre vertida por el Hijo Unigénito de Dios, que por nosotros sufrió tantos tormentos; pues bien, hermanos, demos gracias a Dios que nos envió a su Hijo sacrosanto. Su divina sangre...

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

Hell: a personalised service.

You view love and especially women...as something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickling cruelty: this is truly a modern attitude.

You look at love Ã¢â'¬â€œ and above all women, as an enemy, something against which you feel you have to fight Ã¢â'¬â€œ even if it is in vain. You experience its power as a sort of sweet torment, a tingling cruelty-a truly modern view." "Which you don't share?" "Indeed I do not!

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a new and dangerous thought, without any break. If you succeed in this, the business is done. The reader will not forget - the new words will plague and torment him until he has accepted them.

It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul.

If the demons lived anywhere it was here.

I would rather be exposed to all their torments than be obliged to think about them in order to protect myself from their attacks.

Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

A brief note on the legend of Pandora's Box: Ever wondered why bundled in with all the torrents, and suffering of man kind the Gods put hope down there at the bottom, answer because in certain circumstances hope can be the worst torment of them all.

The lid of the large box containing the bad memories had sprung open, spewing out its contents with no thought of order, creating a malevolent spirit that invaded her dreams and whispered to her she was to blame. That spirit tormented her nightly until her mind was in complete chaos.

The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow.

WHAT WAS THIS. WHY DID IT HURT SO MUCH. WHO COULD SHE SET ON FIRE TO MAKE IT STOP.

slashing pain across the body that betrayed her

When Jack came in he found him sitting before a tray of bird's skins and labels. Stephen looked up, and after a moment said, 'To a tormented mind there is nothing, I believe, more irritating than comfort. Apart from anything else it often implies superior wisdom in the comforter. But I am very sorry for your trouble, my dear.' 'Thank you, Stephen. Had you told me that there was always a tomorrow, I think I should have thrust your calendar down your throat.

People call love sickness heartache, but that's not where you feel rejection. Your heart only responds to excitement and fear - racing, pounding, skipping beats. You feel rejection in the pit of your stomach. It's like the moment you realise you've eaten bad food, and you know that all you've got to look forward to is a night of twisted torment and twisted sheets.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief.