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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. — C.J. Sansom

What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..."
- — John Ferriar

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. — Danielle Steel

I have no heartbeat; I breathe no oxygen; I'm nothing to anyone; I'm not real. And yet I'm cursed with a brain that won't rest; it torments me. — J. Matthew Nespoli

Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell? — Emily Bronte

Escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I've nothing to say of the sun and world - I see only the torments of man. — Justin Bryant

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It is a very painful thing, having to part company with what torments you. And how mute the world is! — Robert Walser

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — E.L. Doctorow

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments. — Katherine Howe

What torments people have to go through when they leave the safety of their homes to become embroiled in mad adventures. — Jose Saramago

There is always something missing that torments me. — Camille Claudel

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Children blessings seem, but torments are. — Thomas Otway

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer. — Nadeem Aslam

Disgust at the torments that shackle us, the chains of heavy life. — Elena Ferrante

Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman. — Shan Sa

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments — Anne Bronte

What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring! — Colley Cibber

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa

The torments of my mind and the source of my hell now fit into a prescribed form. They had always had a name. — Bethany Pierce

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. — Alfred De Musset

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. — Alfred De Musset

Nothing so much torments a geezer as the thought of the unlived life. — Jim Harrison

Beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears ... — John Geddes

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays. — Rob Urbinati

Hope is a waking dream," Jael quoted softly. "And it's the last thing to go. It torments you like a bird killing itself slowly against the glass. — Ann Aguirre

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome. — May Sarton

Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him. — John Milton

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! — Joseph Addison

I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love. — Anna Akhmatova

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Best to help such boys have their moment of fun, before life's torments snatched them. — Larry McMurtry

Our torments also may in length of time
Become our Elements. — John Milton

People's mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others? — Dada Bhagwan

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me. — Clinton Sparks

Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living. — Tara Hudson

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler. — Rosamund Hodge

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life. — Venerable Bede

The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime... — Francis Beaumont

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dream of me, Maddy. See me as I want to be; not the nightmare who torments you, but the devoted and mystified man who worships at your feet. — M.S. Willis

It torments you to know you were misunderstood, to not have risked yourself, and to wait. — Elena Poniatowska

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery