Torment Quotes - Page 14

• Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame, and torment in her life, MAY I DO THAT?

  Jim Anderson

  Daughter, Heart, Heaven

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• Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.

  Judith Hayes

  Beautiful, Fear, Threatening Us

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• I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

  Josef Sudek

  Believe, Doe, Dull

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• Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

  Emily Bronte

  Tyrants, Return, Again And Again

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• These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and uncertain as to what they are.

  John Ankerberg

  Clever, Thinking, Care

  John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub

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• I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

  May Sarton

  Light, Expression, Color

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer to the home of eternal. life; on the contrary, he is hurrying to the torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a pagan without Baptism, but even if he continue as a heretic after having been baptized.

  Fulgentius of Cartagena

  Home, Heaven, Baptism

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• Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Loss, Envy

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• It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Knowing, Panic, Mental Health

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

  Alcibiades

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

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• The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

  Djuna Barnes

  Night, Skins, May

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Angel, Blood

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• Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Death, Long, Dying

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• The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.

  George H. Smith

  Christian, Children, Religion

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• This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was taught unambiguously by Jesus.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Religion, Atheism

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• (The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.

  Samuel Clarke

  Lying, Misery, Hell

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• The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hate, Past

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• What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

  William Blake

  Death, Despair, Eternal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.179, Univ of California Press

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• I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

  Julie Kagawa

  Fate, Sacrifice, Laughing

  Julie Kagawa (2010). “The Iron King”, p.89, Harlequin

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• Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

  Demi Lovato

  Silly, Different, Path

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• Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

  Uri Shulevitz

  Paper, Misuse, Pencils

  Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”

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• High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.

  Chris Colfer

  School, Ideas, Scar

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• Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Night, Mind

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• Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Beautiful, Pain, Home

  Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (1981). “Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales”, Puffin

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