Torment Quotes - Page 7

• Children blessings seem, but torments are.

  Thomas Otway

  Children, Blessing, Seems

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Thomas Otway”, p.131

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• Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
  The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

  Thomas Otway

  Wise, Greatness, Men

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• What avails it that indulgent Heaven
  From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
  If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,
  Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
  Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares
  Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
  Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
  Serence, and master of yourself, prepare
  For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Spring, Eye, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.116, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Education, Book

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Names, People, Atheism

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• When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

  Eva Braun

  Mean, Promise, Doe

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• Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Lovely, Looks, Stories

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• I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

  Jane Austen

  Home, Hair, Sight

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.25, Oxford University Press

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• The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

  Theodor Adorno

  Past, Expression, Ifs

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have eradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Thinking, Finals, Earth

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.140, Del Rey

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• As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

  Thomas Kyd

  Mad, Brave, Wonder

  'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 7, The Fourth Addition (1602 ed.) l. 164

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• If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

  Joseph McCabe

  Men, Causes, Reason

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• Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him.

  L. Neil Smith

  Dog, Guy, Soul

  "The Bad Guys". April 28, 2009.

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• For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Struggle, Taken, Years

  "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.

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• It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.

  Golda Meir

  Religious, Pain, Believe

  "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.

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• Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

  Ishmael

  Sleep, Men, Hands

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• The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.

  Samuel Clarke

  Lying, Goodness, Difficulty

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• I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

  Caryl Rivers

  Writing, Typewriters, Chairs

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• The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Suffering, Doe

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• Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Miserable, Wonderful

  Plutarch (1951). “Selected Lives and Essays”

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• FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Baptism, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press

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• Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

  David Lynch

  Cures, Surface

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past, and take good care not to anticipate the future. If we grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, it is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Running, Past

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.55, TAN Books

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• It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Real, Justice, Giants

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• Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.

  Jim Berg

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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