Torture Quotes
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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 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
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
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
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
...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
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
... 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
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
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
— Matt Groening
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
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 the data, and it will confess to anything, as
— Ben Goldacre
This is the Torture Room. But don't let the name fool you. This is a tent, not a room.
— Jeremy C. Shipp
Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture.
— Rohinton Mistry
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
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[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
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
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
— Jerrold Nadler
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
