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• But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

  Boris Pasternak

  Sorrow, Division, Used

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• He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

  Jack London

  Silent, Fury

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• It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

  Frank Zappa

  Share, Despicable

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• The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Hurt, Pain, Animal

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• There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Hurt, Love Is

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• Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Next, Emptiness, Reincarnation

  Rudolf Steiner (2001). “Reincarnation and Karma”, p.24, SteinerBooks

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• Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Being Yourself, Heart, Fate

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• Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free.” Are you willing? Or do you just want towait until the world  finally gets it and does it your way?

  Gangaji

  Running, Hurt, Doe

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• You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Farthest Shore: Book Three”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Sleep, Boredom

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• There is always something missing that torments me.

  Camille Claudel

  Missing

  Camille Claudel's letter to Auguste Rodin (1886), as quoted on a plaque at 19 Quai de Bourbon in Paris, where Claudel lived and worked from 1899 to 1913,

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• The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

  Carl Jung

  Punishment, Understanding, Process Of Change

  Carl Gustav Jung (1967). “Alchemical studies”

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• If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

  Richard Baxter

  Forever, Blame, Hell

  "The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven". Book by Richard Baxter. Chapter: "The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest", 1650.

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• There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Goodbye, Farewell, Men

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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• I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.

  Lindy West

  Real, World, Ridiculous

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• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

  William Blake

  Angel, Fire, Insanity

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

  Julio Cortazar

  Eye, Color, Kingdoms

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.480, Pantheon

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• If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fortune, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1785, Modern Library

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• The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Joy, Soul

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.163

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• As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Pain, Mean, Reality

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• Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Stupid, Our World

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?

  Miyuki Miyabe

  Memories, Mistake, Past

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• Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Men, Fire

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