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Quotes About Tormented

I will speak that I may find relief"; for there is a redemptive quality for an agitated mind in the spoken word, and a tormented soul finds peace in confessing.
~ Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Não ter uma identidade na qual se escorar tornava você um escritor melhor, você via a vida com olhos menos atormentados.
~ Rachel Cusk
It was a chaste kiss, but as her lips brushed his warm cheek, her eyes met his. They were deep and dark, warm with passion and longing. And somehow she knew, without question, what he thought. What he felt. Time held its breath - and in that moment, looking into Buchan's warm, tormented gaze, Tatiana's heart awoke.
~ Karen Hawkins
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
~ Dave Matthews
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people, but remains hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them.' More than a little rich when coming from the tormentor in chief, but hard to dispute.
~ David Downing
...heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.
~ Joe LaFlam, My Fear Lady
Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
~ Alexander Humboldt
We'll check out this bar and find you a vampire. And if he's not tormented, I'm sure I can fix that. Paranormal Romance Blues
~ Kelley Armstrong
I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.
~ Deb Caletti
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~ Elie Wiesel
Thoughts arise in the hostage's tormented brain. In the hospital, patients feel they are returning to childhood; in prison, they age. The gods blind themselves.
~ Elie Wiesel
Indifference is the epitome of evil. / "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented
~ Elie Wiesel
Sometimes I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting. Interesting outcomes, after all, are just awful outcomes with the volume of drama turned way down.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.
~ Kim Jong-hyun
It was nice to see someone who appreciated her for her character, no matter how disgusted Christian was by the idea of ANYONE dating his aunt. And I actually kind of liked seeing Christian so obviously tormented. It was good for him.
~ Richelle Mead
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe
~ Etienne Gilson
But the ultimate aim of it all—what is it? To sustain ephemeral and tormented individuals through a short span of life, in the most fortunate case with endurable want and comparative freedom from pain, which, however, is at once attended with ennui; then the reproduction of this race and its striving.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
Of course, he might well secure answers to all the questions that tormented him by the simple expedient of turning himself in.
~ Alan Dean Foster
In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?
~ Pablo Neruda
rent limb from limb, Anthony had been
~ Robert Masello
Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.
~ Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Silence encourages the tormentors not the tormented
~ Anon