It is being said of a certain poet that though he tortures the English language, he has never yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal his meaning.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

I soon saw why humans prefer to draw an arbitrary line between themselves and other animals. Had humans been used as these animals were used the only appropriate descriptive word would have been ’torture.

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most

That was when she recognized love: this torture on seeing someone, the greater torture when he was out of sight, in short, a torture without end.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire.

She’s a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one

The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Anger should be expressed. Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stammering, and other means of torturing

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.