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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 seizeThe 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
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
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
Disgust at the torments that shackle us, the chains of heavy life.
— Elena Ferrante
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
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
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
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
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 offThe 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
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Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
