Quotes About Torment

It was easy to denounce that American vision of endless space and well-being and leisure as a deception; to accuse it of obscuring the inner cities and drugs and violence, and the ruthless suppression of remote and near enemies. But to people from tormented societies, America was the country whose nation-building traumas seemed to lie in the remote past, and where many individuals could afford to look beyond the struggles for food, shelter and security that still weighed upon people elsewhere.

To be awake is to be available to torment, and this is the full complete meaning of life.

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside of me.

Anyone so lacking in empathy that he could systematically torment and physically degrade another should not be suffered to live.

But fierce as my attraction was, I also knew that it was more than just a physical attraction [...], more than just a momentenry surge of animal desire. I understood that she wasn't a terribly articulate person and nothing she said that afternoon was particularly brilliant or memorable. And yet there I was in a state of maximum torment - burning and longing and pining, a man trapped in the spines of love.

The Messiah the earth cried for now cries to be held by Mary and will soon cry in torment of the cross of salvation. He came to suffer because he came to save. The angels sang because finally hope had come.

Ow. Ow. That hurt. Ack.. I'm dead.

There isn't one kind of happiness, there's all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen.

Guilt brings condemnation and fear brings torment.

Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.

They haven't made a drug that can touch this pain," Clarence said. "I feel like I'm made of pain.

After the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.

Saulís servants said to him, “Surely a spirit of distress from God is tormenting you.

“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.

Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,

for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.