Torment

Famous quotes containing the word torment:

“each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

“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.)

“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)