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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.
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.
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.
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.
Brahmins never torment or trouble others and have been respected since ages for imparting knowledge and giving direction to society.
Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
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.
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.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.
I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.
You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
I think sometimes producers forget that people like interesting things. It doesn't always have to be 'Big Brother' or toil and torment.
I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.
Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need.
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.
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
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.
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
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.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
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.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
On the mountains there is freedom!
The world is perfect everywhere,
Save where man comes with his torment.
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!
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
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.
