Torment Quotes

• You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Regret

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Heartbreaking

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• May new sufferings torment your soul.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Soul, Suffering, May

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Worst, Plague

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.817, Bible Study Steps

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• The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

  Voltaire

  Greater, Offenders, Conscience

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• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Disappointment, Sunset

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• The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reading, Book, Men

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• Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Christ On The Cross, Knowing

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger. Christian Century article, pp.368-370, www.religion-online.org. April 11, 1990.

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• Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Reality, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

  Theodore Roethke

  Love, Joy, Begets

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

  May Sarton

  Running, Fun, Islands

  May Sarton (2014). “A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• How delicious is pleasure after torment!

  Pierre Corneille

  Pleasure, Delicious

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• Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Heart, Kinky, Literature

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Epic, Men, Order

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• With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

  Calvin Miller

  Song, Singers, No Fear

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

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• I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

  David Byrne

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "Therapy is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?". The Guardian Friday interview, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Perfect love casteth out fear.

  William Penn

  Bible, Perfect, No Fear

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

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Destiny, Self

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Art, Color

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Needs, Appetite

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• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Romance

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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

  Washington Irving

  Marriage, Two, Three

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Political, Politics

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