#tortured

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships. ↗

— Scott Caan

#get #get married #i #married #relationships

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#any #anybody #because #been #day

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#body #changing #characters #every #everything

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#firmly #good #good music #i #music

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#attracted #been #being #characters #circumstances

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#been #could #i #late #me

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. ↗

— Claire Danes

#image #know #played #shed #teenagers

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me. ↗

— Emily Watson

#lot #me #meet #people #think