Tortured Souls Quotes

• My grief lies all within,
  And these external manners of lament
  Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
  That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Silence

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Dream, Heart, Dark

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• Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

  Katy Perry

  Beautiful, Broken, Bird

  "Katy Perry On John Mayer: ‘He Pulled Away. That Was A Big Hello For Me’", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

  Phil Spector

  People, Soul, Want

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• ..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Smile, Lying, Eye

  1895 'We Wear the Mask', stanza 1.

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• Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Grief, Soul

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• We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be otherwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see thus, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Penguin

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• I'm not confident about my appearance, I'm not confident about anything really in my life, I'm a very tortured soul when it comes to self-confidence, but when it comes to my pop songs, if I started to question, I would never stop questioning.

  Torquil Campbell

  Song, Self Confidence, Soul

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Soul

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We wear the mask that grins and lies.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Lying, Wearing A Mask, Bleeding Heart

  "We Wear the Mask" l. 1, 14 (1895)

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• 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

  Heartbroken, Hurt, Soul

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• He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Soul, Mets, Alluring

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to play the regular guy who's had a bit of a jaded past or a bit of a tortured soul because I think they're interesting.

  Dave Bautista

  Thinking, Past, Play

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind;
  I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

  Ani DiFranco

  Soul, Mind, Purpose

  Song: Asking Too Much, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Lonely, Pain

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Im not this tortured soul or anything.

  Edward Furlong

  Soul

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• Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

  Derek Landy

  Tired, Men, Focus

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• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  Nathan Fillion

  Real, Thinking, Blood

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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