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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• Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Ifs

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.51, Penguin UK

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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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• The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. "Who are you?" "I'm... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I... built the cellar for you?" "Oh," the Torment said. "You. Why are you back? I thought you were dead. It would have been nice if you were dead

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Nice, Said

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• Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

  Marquis de Sade

  War, Men, Race

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• Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Might, Longing, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• On the mountains there is freedom!
  The world is perfect everywhere,
  Save where man comes with his torment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Perfect, Mountain

  "The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. vii, 1803.

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• Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Beautiful Women, Existence

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

  Cate Tiernan

  Giving Up, Pain, Life And Death

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Awakening: Book Five”, p.116, Penguin

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