Tormented Quotes & Sayings
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You knew I was confused,
tormented, but you enticed me - led me on ... —
John Geddes

Gentlemen, I am
tormented by questions; answer them for me. —
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was
tormented. —
Dave Moore

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the
tormented. —
Elie Wiesel

Nature can be so soothing to the
tormented mind —
Alexander Von Humboldt

I returned home
tormented by the little demon who whispers into our ear the devastating replies we didn't give at the right time, —
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Broken or whole... you're all mine. You... are all mine! ~Sade~ —
Lucian Bane

For a flicker of a moment our gazes held, sweet and
tormented. —
Julia Day

A
tormented soul; forever trapped in the recesses of my mind; eternally locked in a morbid paradise. —
Myself

They agreed passionately out of the depths of their
tormented lives. —
William Golding

This that is
tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart. —
Rumi

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your
tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first! —
Piers Anthony

Cruel irony, the poor man
tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. —
Albert Camus

There lives no man who at some period has not been
tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution. —
Edgar Allan Poe

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious,
tormented. Love, how can I define it? —
Gao Xingjian

A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be
tormented by our shame. —
Gregory Maguire

I've always been drawn to
tormented people full of contradictions. —
Antonio Tabucchi

Trapped and
tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires. —
S. Jae-Jones

There is this view that if you are not
tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true. —
Gillian Anderson

It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the
tormented souls. —
Arthur Schopenhauer

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the
tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. —
Arthur Schopenhauer

No, I'm not anguished and
tormented. —
George H. W. Bush

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you'll ask.
I don't know: but I feel, and I'm
tormented. —
Catullus

It is very worthwhile to be
tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. —
Jane Austen

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are
tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible. —
Penelope Fitzgerald

I'm not some sort of
tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing. —
Talulah Riley

Mr. Gradgrind greatly
tormented his mind about what the people read in this library: —
Anonymous

I felt for the
tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. —
Dante Alighieri

A
tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember. —
Anthony Liccione

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy,
tormented face. —
Coco Chanel

I'm a fairly
tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. —
Dave Matthews

It was the hate of the used and
tormented, who are the children of the used and
tormented, and whose own children will be used and
tormented. —
Laini Taylor

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

Writers are the most
tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. —
Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is impossible not to notice that our world is
tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. —
William, Saroyan

Better to be
tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents. —
Margaret Mitchell

Do you not know that there are souls constantly
tormented? —
Gustave Flaubert

Smothered by control
a
tormented soul
trapped in his castle
Her tears rolling mist
proof she exists
in Snow White Darkness. —
Diana Rasmussen

Ordinary people, untwins, seek their soulmate, take lovers, marry.
Tormented by their incompleteness they strive to be part of a pair. —
Diane Setterfield

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be
tormented by suspicion. —
Nelson Mandela

Even though I was growing up in a land that had been
tormented since the dawn of time, I refused to consider the world as a battlefield. —
Yasmina Khadra

the phantom of social justice
tormented him. —
Victor Hugo

When a man is pushed,
tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cross between two species. Doomed with the thirst of the undead for human blood, yet
tormented by the gargoyle drive to protect them. —
Lisa Carlisle

Know that I fought Trinity, with every part of me, I fought —
M.R. Field

Heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this
tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo. —
Joe LaFlam

It began with a hello, and ended in hell. —
Anthony Liccione

But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be
tormented by them? —
Margo Lanagan

Men are
tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves. —
Michel De Montaigne

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and
tormented —
Roger Casement

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being
tormented sometimes by violent headaches. —
Plutarch

I have
tormented some sweet men. Broken hearts and shattered dreams.
Men are punching bags, and I have a hell of a right hook. —
R.K. Lilley

Ws 11:17 That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is
tormented. —
Various

As for me, I am
tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. —
Herman Melville

He had let me see inside his
tormented soul, and it had broken every piece of my heart. —
S.D. Hendrickson

Bitter is the language of Truth, Love is an Ointment for Soul
tormented by Truth! —
True Krishna Priya
tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. —
Paulo Coelho

Have you been
tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee. —
Nancy Leigh DeMoss

There was a time we
tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us. —
Stanislaw Lem

No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be
tormented. —
Anthony Trollope

I was not
tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life. —
Sara Shepard

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and
tormented. —
Jonathan Lethem

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was
tormented with. —
Charles Lamb

In what language does rain fall over
tormented cities? —
Pablo Neruda

Death was a living creature. Death was a man
tormented by his past. Death was once a human. —
S.K.N. Hammerstone