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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. Jane Austen

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Baldwin

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

Dan Savage

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Joseph Haydn

You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

David Shields

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

Charles Manson

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

David Byrne

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

William Penn

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Pierre Corneille

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Washington Irving

It's people who you've seen that have given you a lot. In some ways, I felt they helped me psychologically because you see these people up on the screen going through torment and being on the outside, and somehow you relate to them, and it helps you get through life. It's a real honour and pleasure to then meet these people.

Tim Burton

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

Theodore Roethke

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Dick Gregory

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

Laurence Olivier

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Jane Austen

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Frank Crane

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Djuna Barnes

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

Mark Hoppus

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Marquis de Sade

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

Georges Rouault

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Emil Cioran

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

Eva Braun

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Max Beckmann

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

Gary Wolf

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

John C. Hawkes

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?

James Wolcott

'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.

Kate Winslet

Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

Imogen Heap

I went a few times, but I felt there was no way that any therapist could understand my particular torment and also felt in some respects they were sicker than I was.

Jerry West