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I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it. — John Hughes

I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well — Thom Yorke

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write. — Mike White

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. — Andrew Vachss

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured. — Jackson Browne

I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind. — Stephanie Courtney

I was arrested three times and tortured once. — Paulo Coelho

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind;
I want somebody who has a tortured soul ... some of the time — Ani DiFranco

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least." — Martin Luther

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds. — Katy Perry

Take comfort in the devil you know. It may be safer then the one you don't — Vortigern Black

Oh God Angel," he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~ — Lucian Bane

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul ... The losses piled up. — Karen Kingsbury

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. — Oscar Romero

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

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts. — R.L. LaFevers

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me. — Emily Watson

Even if I'm to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have a right to fight against it. — Jun Mochizuki

Tortured for the Republic. — James A. Garfield

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk

As long as I was tortured by love for him, I wanted him to be just as miserable as I was. — Laura Elizabeth Woollett

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? — Kahlil Gibran

I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.' — FKA Twigs

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat — Stieg Larsson

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm starving my stomach is a tortured pit of starvation I'm so hungry so hungry so hungry I can't even imagine what real food must taste like. — Tahereh Mafi

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. — Bill Wilson

It was damn hard leaving you," he said. "I was afraid that if I didn't, you'd be killed or tortured, or we both would."
-Kathy Kulig, Red Tape — Kathy Kulig

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted. — Philip Zaleski

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters. — Marc Warren

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream. — Ruben Blades

It is a torture to see people whom you don't like. — Nikita Dudani

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed! — Margaret Junkin Preston

What if I was born into a normal life, one without a tortured childhood and without the weight of so many responsibilities and burdens? — Kelly St. Clare

The hills
like poets put on
purple thought against
the
magnificent clamor of
day
tortured
in gold — E. E. Cummings

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy. — Billy Bob Thornton

What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted. — John Calvin

Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another. — Seneca.

Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse — Gail Carriger

James Dean was always a tortured soul. — Ansel Elgort

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. — B. Traven

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. — Rajneesh

Arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion. — Tanya Huff

He couldn't regret Daemon's and Lucivar's existence, but he'd tortured himself for centuries with reports of what had been done to them. - Saetan — Anne Bishop

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. — John Zorn

Silence is the tortured man's revenge. — Gregory David Roberts

Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this — Sting

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. — Jessica Lange

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do. — Jodi Picoult

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul. — Phil Spector

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun. — Brett Gelman

God has tortured Theo plenty. If suffering makes noble, then he is a prince. — Donna Tartt

It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man. — Franz Kafka

We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was born into chaos. I didn't know what peace felt like. — Shannon A. Thompson

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself. — L.M. Montgomery

I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured. — Catullus

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe. — Piper Payne

We wear the mask that grins and lies. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce. — Donald G. Firesmith

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not. — Ben Whishaw

You look like hell. (Sebastian)
Yeah, well, it's hard to look good when you're being tortured. (Damos) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. — Lev Grossman

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships. — Scott Caan

The voices of the tortured innocent sing to me. Vengeance, they cry. Vengeance. — Lucian Bane

He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a bruised world he couldn't heal. — Chris Struyk-Bonn

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative. — Ben Barnes

Im not this tortured soul or anything. — Edward Furlong

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

The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. — Kresley Cole

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. — Noam Chomsky

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I've found comfort in the notion that David-man after God's own heart-was often tortured and confused. — Seth Haines

I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one. — Cameron Diaz

She already had a headache-she didn't want to add 'get tortured' to today's to-do list. — C.C. Hunter

This that is tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart. — Rumi

And it's not because I'm tortured
Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade. — Anna Akhmatova

The bed of a tortured soul is always in shambles by morning. — Elizabeth Mckenzie

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. — William Faulkner

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul. — James Nesbitt

He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction. — Martin Amis

The more I know the less tortured I am. — Alanis Morissette

Most of these men's lives were so tortured that I enjoyed reading about them, thinking, well, I am in hell too and I can't even write music. — Charles Bukowski

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. — Marilyn Hacker

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say ... — Margaret George

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. — Noel Gallagher

And yet deep down there is satisfaction, too, for Gruad, long tortured by unreasonable guilt, now has something he can really feel guilty about. — Robert Shea

and the most insane gossip tortured the town — Margaret Mitchell

And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in those mountains for a long long time ... — Farrah Naseem

I have wrinkles. I am not tortured by them. I am no one special and so what if I have wrinkles? One day I will be no one special and be dead. — A.S. King

Fuck, Rach." His voice sounded tortured as he grabbed on to the back of my head and tugged me closer to him. "I never left you. Never. — Christina Lee

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. — Carl Jung

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it. — Spike Jonze

When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles. — Julia Duffy

Something deep inside of me speaks with the voice of the psycho: For who could ever love a beast? — Zoe Cruz

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful. — Jeff Tweedy

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. — Claire Danes

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. — Shannon L. Alder