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• I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Long, Preacher, Preaching

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238

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• My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

  Maya Angelou

  Music, Freedom, Race

  Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.85, Random House

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• Children blessings seem, but torments are.

  Thomas Otway

  Children, Blessing, Seems

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Thomas Otway”, p.131

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Laughing, Joy, Cry

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• What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Boys, Years

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

  Caryl Rivers

  Writing, Typewriters, Chairs

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• The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.

  Samuel Clarke

  Lying, Goodness, Difficulty

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• Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

  Ishmael

  Sleep, Men, Hands

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• It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.

  Golda Meir

  Religious, Pain, Believe

  "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.

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• Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Powerful

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Miserable, Wonderful

  Plutarch (1951). “Selected Lives and Essays”

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• If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Education, Book

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Suffering, Flight

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.241

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• Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

  George Sand

  Cutting, Heaven, Patterns

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

  David Hume

  Friendship, Passion, Long

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.161, VM eBooks

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• And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

  John Milton

  Pleasure, Feels, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1735). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.248

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• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  Plutarch

  Pain, Smart, Confusion

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• I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim." Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me." "I thought you'd appreciate it." "Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you." "You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.

  Richelle Mead

  Rip, Mean, Appreciate

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.191, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Verbs, Use, Method

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.68, Wild Jot Press

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• Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Beautiful, Pain, Home

  Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (1981). “Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales”, Puffin

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• You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be – which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can sculpt it, but in the end we’re all pawns to our final destinies. Good, bad, or indifferent. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Destiny, Years

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• I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

  Anne Rice

  Hate, Love You, Hatred

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.313, Ballantine Books

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• Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Cutting, Men

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• The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

  Mathias Malzieu

  People, Monsters, Wretched

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