Top 378 Torment Quotes & Sayings

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense to me to be as whole and well as I could be, and as happy. I wanted to see what a fortunate life would produce. What writing would come out of a mind that didn’t try to torment itself? What did I have to know? What did I have to do rather than what can I torment and bend myself into doing? What was the fruit on that tree?

Why must women torment me so?

Greatness is its own torment.

I've lived the torment of the names. I've lived the torment of boyfriends breaking up with me because they were afraid I was going to be too fat later in life.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

I've been through 20 years of torment battling with my sexuality.

May new sufferings torment your soul.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. "Who are you?" "I'm... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I... built the cellar for you?" "Oh," the Torment said. "You. Why are you back? I thought you were dead. It would have been nice if you were dead

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

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Children: a torment and nothing more.

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

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

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

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

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

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

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

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.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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

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

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

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