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Quotes About Pain

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
~ Henry Miller
Really, the amount of work I do on a project, I will torture myself.
~ Dennis DeYoung
Breaking up is hard to do. It's torture.
~ Laurie David
Anyone will say anything under torture.
~ George Galloway
Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.
~ Mary E. Pearson
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
~ Tori Amos
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
~ John Yoo
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
~ Molly Ivins
I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.
~ Juliet Stevenson
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
~ Douglas Coupland
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
~ Jesse Ventura
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.
~ Michael Korda
I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.
~ Malcolm Nance
I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.
~ Jonny Bairstow
No matter how bad you make the torture scenes, the reality was much worse. Because you cannot put on screen 70 days and nights with no sleep. And this is the easiest part of the torture.
~ Mohamedou Ould Slahi
In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the torture.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
~ FKA twigs
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
~ Halle Berry
I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
~ Chelsea Handler
I was arrested three times and tortured once.
~ Paulo Coelho
I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.
~ Jonathan Groff
Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
~ Patty Griffin