284 Quotes About Torture

I loved everyone who's been taken from me. So don't tell me when I'm allowed to break.

It was unlike anything he had ever experienced. The pain seemed to stab at him from the inside out. His organs felt like they were shutting down. Everything hurt and there was nothing he could do, but suck it up.

He wriggled around on the floor and twisted into weird contortioned shapes, as he screamed in pain. He wondered what was happening to him. Why was he feeling such great pain? Was it from his cancer? Did it finally come to claim him?

He closed his eyes and fought the pain he felt. He knew, right away, the pain was not from the cancer because it was happening to the other guys, as well. They had all been injected with an experimental serum minutes earlier, which was intended to kill their cancer cells. However, the intense pain made it feel more like it was going to kill them, instead.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

The statistic varied depending on who she was giving the speech to; roughly half the time with most military men, the first divulgence would happen before any pain was administered. Only 5 to 10 percent of the actual spies would say anything without some physical distress. Same numbers for religious zealots. For the low-level toadies, the speech worked 100 percent of the time. The man in charge had never once confessed as single detail without pain.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Pain is memory with witness or corroboration. It isn't real to anyone else, and that is what allows torturers, including governments, to be torturers. They can pretend it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.

I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!