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Quotes About Torture

Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.
~ Paul Graham
True, she did speak as she was being tortured, but can moans and cries be classed as words? Besides, they often stilled her by gagging.
~ Pauline Réage
We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
~ Paulo Coelho
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
~ Paulo Coelho
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
~ Publilius Syrus
If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.
~ Arthur Boyd
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic.' 'I give.' 'You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
~ David Foster Wallace
You think that enough?" said I. "Yes," said he, "and moreover it is all that we can do. If in addition we torture the man, we turn his grief into anger, and the humiliation he would otherwise feel for his wrong-doing is swallowed up by a hope of revenge for our wrong-doing to him.
~ William Morris
O, full of scorpions is my mind!
~ William Shakespeare
La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
~ Christopher Hitchens
and took up arms again as a Resistance fighter in World War II. He was caught, tortured and executed in 1944.
~ Clive James
Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Die Folter war [...] praktizierte Schutzpflicht des Souveräns für seine Untertanen.
~ Unknown
Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.
~ Unknown
Such a person does not cease longing after insatiable appetites, struggling in the darkness without satisfaction. This tortures him and makes the fire grow upon him all the more.
~ Unknown
Jesus Maria,' the boy says. 'The star that guides us to Bethlehem. I thought it was an engine for torture.
~ Hilary Mantel
How torturing, she thought, is the situation of fools who know they are fools; and how pleasant is Claude's state, by comparison.
~ Hilary Mantel
Under his clothes, it is well known, More wears a jerkin of horsehair. He beats himself with a small scourge, of the type used by some religious orders. What lodges in his mind, Thomas Cromwell's, is that somebody makes these instruments of daily torture.
~ Hilary Mantel
The mind is its own best torturer.
~ Hilary Mantel
But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked. Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.
~ Holly Black
Jasper," said Call. "Tell me something, and please answer honestly." Jasper nodded. "Is this the Assembly's new strategy for torturing me until I give them information?
~ Holly Black
Un homme sans passion e sans argent reste maitre de sa personne; mais un maleureux qui aime ne s'appartient plus et ne peut pas se tuer. L'amour nous donne une sorte de religion pour nous-meme, nous respectons en nous une autre vie, il devient alors le plus horibble des malheures avec une espérance, une espérance qui vous fait accepter des tortures
~ Honore de Balzac
O maior amor é o não correspondido. Cresce para aumentar avidez da carne; tortura para valorizar o prazer.
~ Honore de Balzac