Quotes about Tormented

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself. Votes: 3

No, I'm not anguished and tormented. Votes: 2

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. Votes: 2

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. Votes: 2

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. Votes: 2

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life. Votes: 2

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it? Votes: 2

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Votes: 2

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right! Votes: 2

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing. Votes: 2

If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency. Votes: 2

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. Votes: 2

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else. Votes: 2

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. Votes: 2

I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything. Votes: 2

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. Votes: 2

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me. Votes: 2

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it. Votes: 2

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief. Votes: 2

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it. Votes: 2

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. Votes: 2

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed. Votes: 2

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world. Votes: 2

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be. Votes: 2

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Votes: 0

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? Votes: 0

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me. Votes: 0

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with. Votes: 0

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is. Votes: 0

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls. Votes: 0

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. Votes: 0

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Votes: 0

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. Votes: 0

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves. Votes: 0

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented. Votes: 0

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Votes: 0

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ... Votes: 0

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. Votes: 0

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion. Votes: 0

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches. Votes: 0

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it. Votes: 0

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented. Votes: 0

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. Votes: 0

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented. Votes: 0

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul. Votes: 0

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart. Votes: 0

Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee. Votes: 0

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. Votes: 0

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. Votes: 0

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. Votes: 0

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first! Votes: 0

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Votes: 0

My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth. Votes: 0

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. Votes: 0

What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers! Votes: 0

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented Votes: 0

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true. Votes: 0

The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented and killed. Votes: 0

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe Votes: 0

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face. Votes: 0

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all. Votes: 0

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good. Votes: 0

The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words, 'Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health.' Votes: 0

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented. Votes: 0

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented. Votes: 0

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Votes: 0

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record. Votes: 0

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible. Votes: 0

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. Votes: 0

the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines. Votes: 0

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. Votes: 0

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet. Votes: 0

Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented? Votes: 0

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. Votes: 0

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible. Votes: 0

In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle. Votes: 0

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Votes: 0

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin. Votes: 0

Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists. Votes: 0