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All suffering is the consequence of a constant quest.
The bitter soul is forever tortured by darkness left undone
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
Dear Christ! the very prison walls Suddenly seemed to reel, And the sky above my head became Like a casque of scorching steel; And, though I was a soul in pain, My pain I could not feel.
No, this is my revenge. I am giving you just what you want, I'm releasing you. And yet I'm really not. I'll inflict torments on you, subtle torments, day after day, year after year- that's why you're necessary to me.
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed
It is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat ...
I'm talking about the kind of indignity that changes you as a person, makes you withdraw, hide from the world because suddenly it's turned into something frightening - full of dark corners and monsters.
There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!
Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts.
Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ...
True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him.
It is a glory and a torment.
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]
Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.
If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!
So it was that my life passed from the joyous realm of heaven to the choking and inescapable tortures of hell.
Love. It was the only kind of torture I wasn't familiar with.
I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!
Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...
I closed my eyes, seeking a moment of peace but finding none. Behind my eyelids, an entirely new nightmare was waiting. This wasn't another haunting memory. This was a new form of torture.
He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters
Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning ...
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.
Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.
Somehow I escaped punishment in that life, and so now, lifetimes later, a very special kind of hell is being rained down on me, the full rage of karmic justice.
Which Anguish was the utterest
then
To perish, or to live?
God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,
misery.
The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time ...
There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.
There is no greater pain or punishment than memory.
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
I was thinking of love,' I replied in a tone of reproach, 'and here you are talking to me again - forever - about torture!'
'Doubtless! since it's the same thing -
Grief. I don't know how to describe it other than as a roller coaster that drops you into the pit of hell with the rats and the demons, and then lifts you up above the clouds to the place where heaven begins.
There is some suffering that awaits us all.
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better ... let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end ...
The misery of the moment.
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
There, in a livid light, the demons tormented the souls of the damned. The souls preserved the appearance of the bodies which had held them, and even wore some rags of clothing. These souls seemed peaceful in the midst of their torments.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.
Oh, torture. Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?
I come shackled with shadow, consumed with rage and fire, I'm close to breaking, the urge is quaking, raping, I'm the devil, and there's no hope.
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
HELL Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart. MS-74
This that is tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart.
The torment of personal relations. Nothing new there except in the disguise, and in the escape on the wings of adjectives. Sweet to be pierced by daggers at the end of paragraphs.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
This is torment for me, Eva. I can't focus. I can't sleep. I lose my temper at the slightest irritants. I'm in hell without you.
Bidding for the first torment starts at fifty thousand dollars with increments of five thousand. Gentlemen, what is your pleasure?
Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries.
The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. "Who are you?"
"I'm ... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I ... built the cellar for you?"
"Oh," the Torment said. "You. Why are you back? I thought you were dead. It would have been nice if you were dead
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.
That was torture
being able to see, and smell, and hear, and being trapped in a cage. Like standing on the wrong side of the fence, only a few feet from freedom, and knowing you'll never cross it. Yeah. Like that.
To me, torture would be watching sports on television.
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.
Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.
The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.
Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.
I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.
But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.
I suffered unbearable torture in silence, weeping internallyat the sad turn of events, blaming myself bitterly again and again for having delved into the supernatural without first acquiring a fuller knowledge of the subject and providing against the dangers and risks of the path.
But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be tormented by them?
They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.
Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.
Life... a labyrinth... an agony... an ecstasy
- Labyrinths
The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of their own spinning, and that a hell is lurking underneath.
Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.
Let the RAGE consume you, and you will find out, that pain is all you will get at the end of that journey
Suffering sweetens the reward
The darkest of all hells resides in ones mind
Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.
an agony of humiliated indecision
Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.
Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually
about love and the way.
Those Egyptian women, when they saw Joseph,
they were not judging his handsomeness.
They were lost in it,
cutting their hands as they cut their food.
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.