quotes about Torment
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It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.
-- African Spir -
It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.
-- Alan Sugar -
It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
-- Andrew Sean GreerSource : Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
-- Barbara BroccoliSource : "Producers Barbara Broccoli & Michael Wilson Interview QUANTUM OF SOLACE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 15, 2008.
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Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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There is always something missing that torments me.
-- Camille ClaudelSource : Camille Claudel's letter to Auguste Rodin (1886), as quoted on a plaque at 19 Quai de Bourbon in Paris, where Claudel lived and worked from 1899 to 1913,
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
-- Claude BernardSource : Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation
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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 -
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Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.
-- David Lynch -
Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.
-- Franz Kafka -
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
-- Jack London -
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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
-- John Milton -
It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
-- Louise Bourgeois -
The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters
-- Mathias Malzieu -
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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.
-- Max BeckmannSource : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.306, University of Chicago Press
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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 -
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux -
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -
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To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.
-- Pope Francis -
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.
-- Theodor Adorno -
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Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
-- Theodore Roethke -
The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
Children blessings seem, but torments are.
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Thomas Otway”, p.131
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Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.
-- Uri Shulevitz -
Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.
-- Alyson RichmanSource : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.206, Penguin
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Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.
-- Uri ShulevitzSource : Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”
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