Torment Quotes - Page 9

• The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

  Frank Zappa

  Business, Guy, Causes

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• The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Joy, Soul

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.163

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• He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

  Jack London

  Silent, Fury

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• But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

  Boris Pasternak

  Sorrow, Division, Used

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• I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Real, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Invitation to a Beheading”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

  Hermann Hesse

  Rain, Sunshine, Animal

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• He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal.

  Lauren Kate

  Distance, Waiting, Burning

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• No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

  Nicole Krauss

  Justice, Waiting, Storm

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• She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said.

  Anne Stuart

  Lying, Love Is, Knowing

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• You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel

  Thomas E. Sniegoski

  Pain, Moving, Past

  Thomas E. Sniegoski (2012). “The Fallen: The Fallen 1; The Fallen 2; The Fallen 3”, p.671, Simon and Schuster

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• What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Sight, Littles

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• How many lives do you need to live before you fine someone worth dying for?

  Lauren Kate

  Dying, Needs, Fine

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• The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way for the common good. We are a family and we should not miserably torment each other's life because that's absurd.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Thinking, Organization, Way

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• Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done. . . Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Wish, Desire, Done

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• I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

  Marilyn Manson

  Teenage, Levels, Way

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• What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Boys, Years

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Pain, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

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• A person in torment is not going to give you anything.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Giving, Persons

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Laughing, Joy, Cry

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• Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Suffering, Hell

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

  Le Corbusier

  Men, Creating, Joy

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• Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

  John Donne

  Solitude, Hell, Threatened

  Awakenings

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• It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That "bad person" at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other "bad person" at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as "bad" or "good."

  David D. Burns

  Father, Kids, Errors

  Source: time.com

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• What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Self, Flight

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.17, Om Books International

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• Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Perfectly Normal, Feet, Height

  "Telltale Hurt". Live chat, www.slate.com. February 1, 2016.

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