Top 185 Tormented Quotes & Sayings

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

At home - where my grandmother certainly had to deal with Donald more than my grandfather did because he was at work all the time - he was incredibly disrespectful to her. He didn't listen to her. He was a slob. He tormented - in one way or another, I think he tormented all of his siblings.

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

A stalker tormented me for over five years. I don't know what was going through his mind, as he was a police officer, and because of that, I at first considered him someone to be trusted.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.

the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.

No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.

Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.

What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?