Torment Quotes - Page 12

• Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Fire, Evil

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• There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Suffering, Trials

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• Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Self, Doe

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• The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

  Claude Bernard

  Facts, Investigators

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• The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.

  Henry James

  Responsibility, Discovery, Luxury

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.170, University of Chicago Press

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• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

  William Blake

  Angel, Fire, Insanity

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

  Frank Zappa

  Share, Despicable

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• There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Goodbye, Farewell, Men

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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• There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Hurt, Love Is

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• Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Stupid, Our World

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Next, Emptiness, Reincarnation

  Rudolf Steiner (2001). “Reincarnation and Karma”, p.24, SteinerBooks

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• Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Blessed, Thinking

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• All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Facts, World, Ethics

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

  Richard Baxter

  Forever, Blame, Hell

  "The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven". Book by Richard Baxter. Chapter: "The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest", 1650.

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• The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Hurt, Pain, Animal

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

  William Gurnall

  Inspirational Life, World, Accusing

  William Gurnall (1669). “The Christian in Compleat Armour, Or, A Treatise of the Saints War Against the Devil: Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints ...”

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• Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Past, Evil

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• What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

  Marquis de Sade

  God, Religious, Men

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• If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

  Alyson Richman

  Dream, Awake, Stills

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.206, Penguin

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• But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.

  Nikolai Bukharin

  Soul, Secret, Tears

  Nikolai Bukharin (2005). “How It All Began: The Prison Novel”, p.110, Columbia University Press

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• Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Religious, Pain, Grief

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.164, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Integrity, Philosophical, People

  "The Last Book" by Simon Soloveychik, (Ch. 17), 1999.

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• 'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

  Homer

  Sad, Strong, Dust

  Homer “The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions”, Library of Alexandria

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• Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.

  Arthur Lynch

  Pain, Light, Civilization

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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