Torment Quotes - Page 13

• The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many students have so much torment, stress, depression, sorrow and hate in them these days, but then they get this technique and the negativity starts to go away. They start to feel good because the torment is leaving. Their health gets better and they get happier, their comprehension and their ability to focus grow, their grades go up and a joy for life grows; all of which comes from within.

  David Lynch

  Stress, Hate, Light

  "An Ocean of Solutions: The David Lynch Interview". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.

  William Winwood Reade

  Running, Religious, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1876). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.228

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

  Anne Bronte

  Husband, Lovers, Prove

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.178, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Sleep, Night, Sight

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim." Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me." "I thought you'd appreciate it." "Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you." "You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.

  Richelle Mead

  Rip, Mean, Appreciate

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.191, Kensington Publishing Corp.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Pain, Superficial

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.212, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Fire, Giants, Icy

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

  Irvine Welsh

  Pain, Coffee, Class

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Devil

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.671

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?

  John Locke

  Christian, Kindness, Men

  7 Copy quote

• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Letting Go, Compassion, Long

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

  Mel Gibson

  Helping, Fame, Found

  4 Copy quote

• Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mistake, Sleep, Tyrants

  "A Reply to Professor Haldane (1946)". "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1966.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral or intellectual excellence, honest labor faithfully, steadily and persistently pursued, is the best, if not the only, explanation of their success... All human experience proves over and over again, that any success which comes through meanness, trickery, fraud and dishonour, is but emptiness and will only be a torment to its possessor.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Self, Intellectual

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.344, Hackett Publishing

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Giving, Musician

  4 Copy quote

• Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
  Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
  Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
  Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Women, Heaven, Devil

  7 Copy quote

• I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, with my Father in heaven, my Savior, and with the faithful Latter-day Saints. To live any longer than this would be torment and misery to me. When my work is done I am ready to go; but I want to do what is required of me.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Father, Long, Heaven

  Wilford Woodruff (2015). “Leaves from my Journal”, p.93, Noodle-Doo Studios

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Elements, Opposition, Fanaticism

  4 Copy quote

• Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Sight, House

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.258

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

  Aeschylus

  Rights, Long, Lasts

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.216, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

  John Hawkes

  Magnificence, Language

  4 Copy quote

• Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Smart, Eye

  7 Copy quote

• Children: a torment and nothing more.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children

  4 Copy quote

• God is called jealous, angered, repentant, merciful, and foreknowing. These simply mean that, because He guards the chastity of every soul, He can, in human fashion, be called jealous, although He is not subject to any mental torment.

  Pope Gregory I

  Fashion, Mean, Jealous

  Source: www.patheos.com

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Prayer, Thinking, Answers

  4 Copy quote