Torment Quotes

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

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

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.