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Quotes About Tortured

O to blot out this garden to forget, to find a new beauty in some terrible wind-tortured place.
~ H.D.
Damp tonnage and alluvial march of days…Tortured with history, its one will—flow!
~ Hart Crane
Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
~ Learned Hand
I got 'Elektra: Assassin,' and that's where I learned that she was a tortured soul. She's been through a lot and was possibly psychologically unstable.
~ Elodie Yung
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
~ Vivienne Westwood
qué genios tan torturados son. No me convence…
~ Timothy Ferriss
Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100%, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.
~ Lester Bangs
She was passionately loyal, and if she was obnoxious it was only because she was so deeply tender-hearted. It made her easily wounded, and when she was wounded she lashed out. She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.
~ Lev Grossman
I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.
~ Josh Ritter
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
~ Damien Hirst
My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.
~ William Shakespeare
The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows to the unseen grief which swells with silence in the tortured soul. There lies the substance.
~ William Shakespeare
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was.
~ Unknown
time as a relative experience, different for the jogger, the lover, the tortured, the leisured. N-W
~ Zadie Smith
An hour later, Cartier returned with a number of beautiful flowering plants, which he placed himself in the jardinieres, covering them with fresh moss. Godefroid paid his bill; also that of the circulating library, which was brought soon after. Books and flowers! — these were the daily bread of this poor invalid, this tortured creature, who was satisfied with so little.
~ Honore de Balzac
So do you believe there is an afterlife?' I asked him. 'Yes, I think so. I hope so. You know why I hope this?' He paused and looked me in the eye, waiting. I shook my head. 'Because I want Khomeini to suffer. I want to believe he is suffering now, for what he did to the Iranian people, all the people he killed and tortured and drove away from their homes. All the lives he has ruined.
~ Unknown
My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured, self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit.
~ Unknown
Interpretar un alma torturada sobre el escenario era más fácil para Ian sin el ojo vigilante de la mujer que lavaba su ropa interior.
~ Unknown
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
She was afraid he would turn into one of those men who make a saintliness of their resentment, shining through the years with a pure and tortured light.
~ Don DeLillo
Feminism will have you believe women are oppressed and maligned, tortured by male power, and forced into submission to the patriarchy.
~ Unknown
Horror and doubt distract his troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir the Hell within him; for within him Hell he brings, and round about him, nor from Hell one step, no more than from himself, can fly by change of place.
~ John Milton
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
~ Andrew Vachss