#torment

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#difference #ever #everything #get #happened

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#confuse #cut #forced #i #me

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ↗

— Claude Monet

#joy #obsession #torment

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. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#been #call #capacities #drinks #even

The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few. ↗

— Afif Safieh

#east #either #few #many #middle

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction. ↗

— Jean de La Bruyère

#dr-who #living #torment #death

Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh.  A tormented writer?  I personally wouldn't have put those two words together.   Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree to that.  But writers, through the formation of our characters, delve so often into the depths of a vast range of emotions that we earn the advantage.  For we've examined every little thrumming, fracture, spark, pang, and darkening of the heart to a point that we understand and appreciate the necessity and strength of emotions as well as the cause and effects manipulating them.   We understand.   We can imagine.   We sympathize.   Our knowledge is power over the torment of emotional ignorance.   I would suggest that those truly tormented are the readers of our works because those poor souls shall never know with such clarity and sentiment all the tiny little details that make our characters breath, move, and live before our very eyes.   Perhaps, if torment does lurk among writers, it comes simply through knowing more about an imagined friend than can ever be adequately expressed in words. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#richelle #richelle-goodrich #torment #writing #imagination

Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. “I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can’t you say it, Hero? ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#relationships #tormented #love

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#heresy #punishment #religion #scripture #suffering

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame. ↗

— Jack London

#tame #torment #london