Torment

Famous quotes containing the word torment:

“Eat your dry and tasteless bread,
and drink cold water.
When you see others eating delicacies, Farid says,
don’t torment yourself.”
—Farid (13th cent.)

“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and “mangled mind” leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.”
—Elizabeth Drew (1887–1965)