Torment Quotes - Page 2

• What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.

  Arnulf Øverland

  Atheist, Thinking, Promise

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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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• 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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• Perfect love casteth out fear.

  William Penn

  Bible, Perfect, No Fear

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• In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

  Pablo Neruda

  Life, Rain, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.66, Copper Canyon Press

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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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• 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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• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Romance

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

  Carol Shields

  Perfect, Silence, Silence Is

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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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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• 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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• Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

  John Milton

  Time, Fire, Elements

  1665 Mammon. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.274-7.

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• The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bystanders, Martyr, Felt

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• I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ideas, Expectations, Lasts

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• In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  'Letters to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq.' (1817) Letter to A. C. Stanhope, 12 October 1765

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• A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Order, Together

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• Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Life, Pain

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

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• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

  Harlan Ellison

  Revenge, Hate, Passion

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• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Men, People

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• I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Adversity, Giving, Growth

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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