Torment Quotes - Page 14

• The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

  Djuna Barnes

  Night, Skins, May

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

  Demi Lovato

  Silly, Different, Path

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• I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

  Julie Kagawa

  Fate, Sacrifice, Laughing

  Julie Kagawa (2010). “The Iron King”, p.89, Harlequin

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• Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

  Emily Bronte

  Tyrants, Return, Again And Again

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• There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Elements, Opposition, Fanaticism

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Sleep, Night, Sight

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Letting Go, Compassion, Long

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

  Anne Bronte

  Husband, Lovers, Prove

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.178, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Pain, Superficial

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.212, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Fire, Giants, Icy

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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

  John Hawkes

  Magnificence, Language

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• Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer to the home of eternal. life; on the contrary, he is hurrying to the torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a pagan without Baptism, but even if he continue as a heretic after having been baptized.

  Fulgentius of Cartagena

  Home, Heaven, Baptism

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• I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

  May Sarton

  Light, Expression, Color

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Night, Mind

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• I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

  Alfred de Musset

  Ideas, Helping, Infinite

  'Premiéres Poèsies' 'L'Espoir en Dieu'

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• Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

  Bergen Evans

  Leadership, Able, Motivated

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Men, Mind, Desire

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• Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Smart, Eye

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• Children: a torment and nothing more.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children

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• Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Past, Evil

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• If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

  Alyson Richman

  Dream, Awake, Stills

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.206, Penguin

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• If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.

  William Winwood Reade

  Running, Religious, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1876). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.228

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• That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

  Irvine Welsh

  Pain, Coffee, Class

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.

  Arthur Lynch

  Pain, Light, Civilization

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Integrity, Philosophical, People

  "The Last Book" by Simon Soloveychik, (Ch. 17), 1999.

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