Torment Quotations

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

In my TV job as a police detective, I have to deal with some pretty cold-hearted characters. But I can't think of anything more heartless than to torment and kill animals in the name of fashion.

I have felt bad, I have been tormented by that.

The children were going to be tormented the rest of their lives, and they were going to perish in the fires of hell,

The tape shows experimenters using their power over the monkeys to torture and torment them, while lab supervisors stand by or even join in,

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

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

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

I am delighted by beholding that which has never been seen before, and yet my mind is tormented with fear.

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.