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I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching. — Martin Luther

I mean, aren't we all tormented by past relationships? — Alex Rosa

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. — Lewis H. Lapham

I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead. — Theodore Dalrymple

My son,
Here may indeed be torment, but not death. — Dante Alighieri

147Why should God make you suffer torment if you are thankful and believe in Him? God always rewards gratitude and He knows everything. — Anonymous

Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong. — Yasmin Mogahed

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money. — Frank Zappa

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with memories of their past? — Miyuki Miyabe

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment. — Lucian

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

I was sent by God to torment / myself, my family, everyone / whom it's a sin to torment. — Boris Pasternak

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him. — Charles Spurgeon

The madness was gone, but now I knew the torment of sanity. My — Rhiannon Frater

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. — Kobo Abe

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. — Giacomo Casanova

But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy? — Franz Wright

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind. — Sidney Sheldon

To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment. — Tracey Bond

I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him. — Cheryl Strayed

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery. — Claude Bernard

In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery. — Rabih Alameddine

I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I love you. Most ardently. — Jane Austen

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux

I"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel ,, torment — Lauren Kate

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. — Washington Irving

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis

To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling! — Anton Chekhov

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside. — David Lynch

It was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant. — R.K. Lilley

God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain. — Timothy W. Tron

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. — John Milton

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. — Saul Bellow

Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life. — Yann Martel

You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel — Thomas E. Sniegoski

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? — Jean Paul

Why must women torment me so? — Theodore Dreiser

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you. — Ogden Nash

Few things rival the torment of the once-famous actor, the fallen politician or, as Tocqueville might have remarked, the unsuccessful American. — Alain De Botton

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

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

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. — Sergei Parajanov

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I loved very much - and so used to torment until she cried - a girl named Sonia. — Jamaica Kincaid

All I can think is that when you torment a person ... the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too. — Avi

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes with living a "what if" life. — Steve Maraboli

It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment. — African Spir

When you have all, why torment the depths? — Keith Waldrop

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment. — Voltaire

That's the funniest thing of all about attraction. It can be so torturous, but you can look forward to it so much. It's an exquisite kind of torment. — Lauren Blakely

No matter what you think of me, I'm part of your thoughts. Even if you hate me, I'll live in your mind forever. — Kayla Krantz

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won. — Franz Grillparzer

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. — Frank Crane

Be the lighthouse that bears the torment of the storm, but never forget to show the saving lights of life. — Debasish Mridha

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. — Mahavira

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame. — Jack London

The sorrow of losing what we love is nothing to the torment of having it present but denied us. — Martin Boyd

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens

I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks. — Jane Austen

As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment. — Anne Rice

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. — Gustave Flaubert

To my abusers: I forgive you. — Pattie Mallette

In torment, there was release.
In the darkness, there was light.
In solitude, there were companions. — C.C. Humphreys

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

My wails of sorrow
are tormenting my soul — Jalaluddin Rumi

56. As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers. — Anonymous

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ... — Carol Shields

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. — John Donne

Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us — Bangambiki Habyarimana

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction. — Jean De La Bruyere

The woman never used one word when she could torment ten. — Karen Maitland

Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment. — Perry Stone

How many lives do you need to live before you fine someone worth dying for? — Lauren Kate

Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do. — Bob Larson

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

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that? — Friedrich Nietzsche

It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment — Daphne Du Maurier

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. — Jane Austen

If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. — Epicurus

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

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it. — Mel Gibson

How delicious is pleasure after torment! — Pierre Corneille

Don't misuse the pencil and don't torment the paper. — Uri Shulevitz

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin

When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out — Lauren Kate

The feel of him would forever be etched in her memory.And cause an eternity of torment. — Robin Bielman

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant. — Barbara Broccoli

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters — Mathias Malzieu

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone De Beauvoir

Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper — Tony Alleyne

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment. — Theodor Adorno

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Am I fated to have the men I've loved torment me in my weakest moments? — Stephanie Dray

Thou art to me a delicious torment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit. — Octavia E. Butler

The Choice Spare him till he dies. Torment him till he lives. — John Fowles

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. — Charles Manson