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Torment Quotes - Page 2

Greatness is its own torment.

Greatness is its own torment.

Theodore Parker
Greatness, Torment
Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.89

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief, Evil, Torment

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Pope Francis
Difficult, Torment
General Audience, w2.vatican.va. November 19, 2014.

I know he would die if you died, Luce

Lauren Kate
Torment, Died, Knows
Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.471, Delacorte Press

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

David Lynch
Cures, Surface, Torment
"His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.

Alan Sugar
Torment, Clothings, Bits

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Voltaire
Torment, Greater, Offenders

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

Philibert Joseph Roux
Desire, Pleasure, Torment

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

William Shakespeare
Life, Fortune, Torment
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1785, Modern Library

Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

Uri Shulevitz
Paper, Misuse, Torment
Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”

Why must women torment me so?

Theodore Dreiser
Women, Torment

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Theodor Adorno
Past, Expression, Torment
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

Peter Lewis Allen
People, Sick, Torment

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Mary Augusta Ward
Elements, Torment, Opposition

Children: a torment and nothing more.

Leo Tolstoy
Children, Torment

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

John Hawkes
Magnificence, Language, Torment

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passing, Dare, Torment
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness, Joy, Torment

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

Claude Bernard
Facts, Torment, Investigators

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

Carol Shields
Perfect, Silence, Torment
Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

Andrew Sean Greer
May, Demon, Torment
Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

Alyson Richman
Dream, Awake, Torment
Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.206, Penguin

It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

African Spir
Blessing, Torment, Depends
"Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 37), 1937.

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