#torture

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion! ↗

— Jane Austen

#comical #distress #love #torture #anger

The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life. ↗

— Courtney M. Privett

#death-of-a-loved-one #malice #torture #death

But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death of seeing people tortured in the name of God. What had happened to these people? ↗

— Brom

#seeing #sick #torture #what-had-happened #death

I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fantasy #funny #humor #language #letters

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #torture #imagination

إذا خفيت عنا الحكمة في العذاب أحيانا.. فلأننا لا ندرك كل شيء ولا نعرف كل شيء، ولا ندرك من القصة إلا تلك المرحلة المحدودة بين قوسين اسمها الدنيا.. أما ما قبل ذلك ومابعد ذلك فهو بالنسبة لنا غيب محجوب.. ولذا يجب أن نصمت في احترام ولانطلق الأحكام.. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#religion #sad #torture #life

The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life. ↗

— Melissa Andrea

#love #love-hurts #love-story #silk #silkiness

It was one thing to wake up feeling like I'd just been put through the puree stage of a blender- it was another to wake up feeling like I'd just been put though the puree stage of a blender to county music. ↗

— Jus Accardo

#torture #music

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#each #face #get #give #into

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#brothers #murder #organized #our #torture