Torture Quotes and Sayings
November 28, 2008 by admin
Filed under Inspirational, Other, Quotes
Quill is an implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
~Ambrose Bierce
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
~ James Anthony Froude
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
~John Calvin
“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.”
~Cameron Diaz
“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”
~Alan Feldman
“In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”
~ Luis Bunuel
“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
~John Calvin
“Love is a reciprocal torture.”
~Marcel Proust
” Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ”
~Arthur Eddington
“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
“If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water”
~ Bulgarian Proverb
“The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
~Carl Jung
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
~Lord Byron
“Chess is mental torture.”
~Garry Kasparov
“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services”
~Heraclitus of Ephesus
