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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on. — Cameron Diaz

There is so much guilt lying around here, just waiting for me to pick it up and carry it with me. There is so much I can torture myself about. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. — Bertrand Russell

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine - the wait to die. — Tarryn Fisher

And if torture were uniformly ineffective, there would be no need for a treaty banning it - which the Geneva Conventions do. — Anonymous

Fuck up and I'll most likely kill you. Fuck up bad enough and I'll torture you first."
"-Thorn — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Less talk, more screaming. — Michael J. Sullivan

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. — Eduardo Galeano

If you think he's the one, you have to take a leap. But first, torture him. It's only fair. — Jennifer Probst

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca The Younger

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl

Damn Lyric, it isn't torture. It's travel. Get some sleep."
- Sabine — J.W. Ellis

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home. — Roma Tearne

For a woman, forty is torture, the end. — Grace Kelly

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. — James L. Brooks

Not too much. I never got into killing things." "Preferring slow torture." "You — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason. — Martin Starr

So, then I'll just use Jesse's to torture you some more. — Bella Jeanisse

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men. — Enver Hoxha

What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live. — Peter Carey

When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in. — Henry James

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness — Friedrich Nietzsche

The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life. — Melissa Andrea

Heartbreak is the most painful kind of torture, and the mind is its greatest ally." - — Ellie Wade

...through a torture she called love. — Victoria Aveyard

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture. — Jayne Ann Krentz

Airports are torture chambers if you're claustrophobic. — Jennifer E. Smith

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. — Darin Strauss

Below me, inside me, there's a pit that's dark and comforting and quite completely insane. If I sink into it, I can be free of all torture. — Karen Marie Moning

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor — Jeffrey Archer

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it. — Eva Gabor

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings. — Robinson Jeffers

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. — Charles Baudelaire

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. — Teresa Of Avila

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea. — Steve Martin

... the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly - by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious. — Mary MacLane

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. — Luther Burbank

If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? — Sadhguru

Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good. — Shelley Noble

There is no greater burden or torture in this life than for a mother to live without one of her children — Unknown

Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. — Victor Hugo

How do you know about Boy George? (Jesse)
I was in hell, Jesse. What do you think they used to torture me with? Bad pop songs. (Xypher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Spies should be able to endure torture and still keep their secrets. I spilled mine out like pennies from a broken piggy bank. — Myra McEntire

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning. — Michael Monroe

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture. — Laura Argiri

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Next to not living with those one loves, the worst torture is living with those one doesn't love. — Julian Barnes

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Emil Cioran

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture. — Francine Prose

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. — Matt Groening

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture. — A. Petrov

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture. — Jesse Ventura

Somewhere near the Alamo, a bugle brayed: either that or McCulloch's men had found some reason to torture a poor, defenseless donkey. — Harry Turtledove

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity - akin to torture. — Sandra Lee Dennis

Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? — Albert Camus

Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits. — Lisa Unger

Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why — Mark Lawrence

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. — Samuel Johnson

Torture. I totally get it, like, I get that she died or whatever. — John Green

Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That's agribusiness. — Anonymous

Torture the data, and it will confess to anything, as — Ben Goldacre

i will not kill you.

i will keep you alive.
I will torture you.

until your soul is dead. — Marie Lu

This is the Torture Room. But don't let the name fool you. This is a tent, not a room. — Jeremy C. Shipp

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels. — Jan Hus

Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture. — Rohinton Mistry

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. — Ida B. Wells

We all make mistakes that torture us the whole of our lives. Unfortunately, fate doesn't always allow us a second chance. I — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have. — Aaron B. Powell

Torture by maths should be a felony. — Bethany Frenette

Finishing is torture ... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it. — Jacob Collins

It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture. — Mary E. Pearson

The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery. — Charles Baudelaire

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing. — Karl Lehenbauer

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back. — Orson Scott Card

Penology ... has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime ... a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety. — Paul Goodman

What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones. — Rafik Schami

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time. — Joey Lauren Adams

You can't pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet-case to death. — Dan Savage

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. — James Patterson

I want to be the most terrible thing that's ever happened to you. Can you understand that? I want to be the only nightmare you ever have. — 19

I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self. — Reid Scott

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture. — James Patterson

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances. — Pope Benedict XVI

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture! — Jessica Capshaw

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? — Leo Tolstoy

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves. — Ke$ha