#torture

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#justification #lies #torture #torture

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. ↗

— Marisha Pessl

#torture #torture

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#days #deserved #go #half #i

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. ↗

— Lucy Grealy

#life #self-consciousness #sharp #torture #life

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#could #crawl #daring #describe #get

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ↗

— John Calvin

#conscience #hell #living #soul #torture

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#inflict #mental #never #nightmare #ourselves

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#also #asserted #dead #election #issues

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#around #because #blue #bruise #call

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eternal #eternal life #good #horrible #i