Top 40 Torment Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Torment Quotes from famous people such as Dick Gregory, Theodore Roethke, Gareth Thomas, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession,

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Theodore Roethke
I’ve been through 20 years of torment battling with my sexuality.
Gareth Thomas
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn’t buy a coffee.
Akhil Sharma
We are teaching white children to hate themselves. We are teaching nonwhite children that it’s OK to bully and torment white children because of the color of their skin.
Miranda Devine
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it’s very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I’m not a great actor, so if the material isn’t good, I’m in torment while I do it.
Norm MacDonald
For too long, we’ve allowed ourselves to equate targeted bullying with innocent teasing, or dismissed it as pranks and ignored the torment and long-term impact that an incident like this has on young people.
Kerry Kennedy
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn
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
It’s torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.
Israel Houghton
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
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Charles Manson
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 subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne
Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.
John Caudwell
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
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
John C. Hawkes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes
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
Transplant is a life-changing ‘experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need.
Andy Cole
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
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
William Shakespeare
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Emil Cioran
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
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
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Pierre Corneille
Brahmins never torment or trouble others and have been respected since ages for imparting knowledge and giving direction to society.
Ravi Kishan
The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it’s really unpleasant.
Barbara Broccoli
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you’re wearing.
Alan Sugar
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
Braddock looks every bit the deserted battlefield it truly is: 90 percent of our town’s people, buildings, businesses, and homes are gone and what remains, bears witness to the torment.
John Fetterman
Looking back, I realise it wasn’t only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn’t knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn’t they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them?
Howard Jacobson
You don’t think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?
David Shields
‘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
I’ve learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn’t the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.
Toby Stephens
Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who’ve gone through personal torment.
Cole Sprouse
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