Torment Quotes

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy... (Georges Rouault)
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. View quote
Claude Monet
The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant. View quote
Barbara Broccoli
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. View quote
Frank Crane
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. View quote
Djuna Barnes
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. View quote
Jane Austen
Thou art to me a delicious torment. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love begets love. This torment is my joy. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. (Marquis de Sade)
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? View quote
John Donne
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes. View quote
Henry James
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. View quote
Irvine Welsh
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! View quote
Anne Rice
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands? View quote
Emil Cioran
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
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. View quote
Dinah Craik
There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth! View quote
Anton LaVey
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. (Claude Monet)
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. View quote
Sam Harris
Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes... he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats. View quote
Václav Havel
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer