Torture Quotes

Torture Quote of the day

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.

I know mine own!

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Silence, too, can be torture.

At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

I’ll rid the world of each one of you, ” he whispered. “Every single one…

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

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.

Of course he was required to wear a seat belt, just as he was required to give directions to a torture camp, because stupidity was the single abiding law of the universe.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

When Lisa awoke she was back in the cell on the floor covered in her own blood, dirt, and urine. And that was only day 1.

The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

Only cowards torture women.

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

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

shall we dance into the perpetual torture of our union once more?

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

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

... sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving...

Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.

The hour of our release draws near.

Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

Power is not a means

They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.

Like fashion, torture comes in a variety of styles.