Tortures Quotes
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John Updike
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
John Strachan
Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.
Stephen F. Lynch
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
Gene Simmons
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.
James McGreevey
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Johann Georg Hamann
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
Sammy Davis, Jr.