Top 425 Tortured Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

I'm not a tortured soul.

I didn't need to get married again. It's great to be in a situation in which you're happy. But, you know, I'm not tortured by love. I'm not tortured by chagrin d'amour. I'm old now.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles.

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured?

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

I try not to read reviews, but if it's a really important review or somebody sends it to me, I'll read it. It's really interesting when you read a review of yourself, you see this weird reflected image - it's like looking a funhouse mirror. Like, "It's sort of me, but is my neck really that elongated?" Sometimes it's vaguely embarrassing what people think of you. When I was in Italy doing this press-interview day, this guy asked me, "Are you a tortured soul?" It's embarrassing to have somebody think you're a tortured soul, or that you think of yourself as a tortured soul.

James Dean was always a tortured soul.

That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

The tortured always remain tortured.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer.

I told the people before they tortured me, please, don't torture me. I didn't do anything. They say, we have to torture you very much. Then when they tortured me, I told them everything they want to hear. I signed confession. That said, the ball was in their court. You know, I very much surrender to my lot.

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

I'm tortured because I care.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

The more I know the less tortured I am.

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

Even if I'm to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have a right to fight against it.

I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.

Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was enraptured. It was a rare and sweet look for him, reminding me of the tortured artist that lived beneath the sarcasm. I liked that about Adrian—not the tortured part, but the way he could feel so deeply and then transform those emotions into art.

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Im not this tortured soul or anything.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

It's something I've seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I think being a showrunner, you have a lot of unchecked power and I think that can be a very dangerous thing.

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.

Tortured for the Republic.

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.