Torment

Famous quotes containing the word torment:

“No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of his pretended friends nor the sufferings of his real ones can ever again rend and torment his honest heart.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)