#torment

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake. ↗

— Alyson Richman

#loss #love #torment #dreams

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once? ↗

— Eva Braun

#does #finish #his #instant #keeps

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

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

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. ↗

— William Blake

#genius #hell #insanity #torment #genius

I know he would die if you died, Luce ↗

— Lauren Kate

#fallen #luce #torment #kate

When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out ↗

— Lauren Kate

#luce-and-daniel #torment #kate

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#containing #face #invested #like #lover