#torment

...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

Love begets love. This torment is my joy. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#joy #love #torment

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#appetite #men #need #some #some men

And how do you confess to a beautiful woman that you can't fulfill a relationship because you're tormented by the presence of another woman that doesn't even exist? ↗

— Victoria Caro

#tormented-mind #beauty

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #heart #i #know #none

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#agony #because #beforehand #cannot #concert

...you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #torment #unrequited #love

I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#evil #good #torment #good-and-evil

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. ↗

— Epicurus

#much #possession #riches #their #torment

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. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#came #childhood #did #english #had