Tormented Quotes

My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth. — Sophie Ristelhueber

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart. — Catherine The Great

I believe," she said slowly at last, "that the tormented are very close to God. I'm sorry, Sergeant." He — Lois McMaster Bujold

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

I hate and I love. You ask why I do this? I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented. - CATULLUS — Kami Garcia

The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented and killed. — Norm Phelps

Quitting is a hiccup for losers. And down they go. — Lorenz Font

I am the happily ever after in your twisted tormented tale of your Cinder-fuckin-rella dreams. — Suzanne Steele

Only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control. — Rick Bragg

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart. — Crystal Woods

Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. - — Jonathan Kellerman

Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it. — Sui Ishida

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker

Books taught me that things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me to everyone who is alive and who had ever been alive. — James Baldwin

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it. — Cassandra Clare

You cannot be in a close and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and remain so tormented. — Lisa Heaton

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. — Haim Ginott

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is. — Igor Stravinsky

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right! — Joyce Meyer

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. — Richard Steele

What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers! — Samuel Beckett

That little boys and girls should be tormented is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny. — Jane Austen

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die. — Osamu Dazai

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe — Etienne Gilson

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