#torture

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. ↗

— Stanislaw Lem

#know #man #pleasures #torture #you

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#bitterness #delight #flowers #fountain #heart

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. ↗

— David Miliband

#always #anything #clash #clear #closed

Love is a reciprocal torture. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#love is #reciprocal #torture

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#could #function #i #language #like

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training? ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#cases #killing #operative #part #practice

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory. ↗

— George A. Romero

#anybody #forgotten #horror #how #i

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#crossword #kills #mental #puzzles #read

He paused, gasping for breath, but continued in a soft, steady voice. "Allie, I...I love you. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#sarren #torture #zeke #love

A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#torture #music