Torment Quotes

Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.

Nicolas Chamfort

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.

Emil Cioran

The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.

Emil Cioran

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

Djuna Barnes

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

Dr. Frank Crane

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.

George Lansdowne

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

John Hawkes

You may have a vast scholarship, fame or fortune. But, the bee can give you a lesson on how to be free from torment

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Mignon McLaughlin

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Elizabeth Drew

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it. Their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future,--these are the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious.

Robert Hall

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

William Penn