#torments

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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