#torment

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious. ↗

— Peter Lombard

#elect #forth #go #grieved #impious

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. ↗

— Charles Manson

#demons #devils #did #i #loose

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

— Gao Xingjian

#confusing #define #holy #how #i

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#help #i #infinity #me #myself

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #evils #man #prolongs #reality

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#flee #men #most #need #sensual

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#ago #black #disappointment #golden #i

...and Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.) ↗

— Lauren Kate

#torment #funny

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

— William Penn

#jealous #others #themselves #torment #troublesome

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#becomes #danger #emotionally #epic #epic poetry