284 Quotes About Torture
- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.
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- Author Ian Fleming
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For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or woman that hung down over the edge of the interrogation table. Then she would squat down on the stool and and look into the face and quietly say 'No. 1' or 'No. 10' or 'No. 25' and the inquisitors would know what she meant and they would begin. And she would watch the eyes in the face a few inches away from hers and breathe in the screams as if they were perfume.
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- Author Noureddine Aba
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Je me suis demandé d’où nous venait cette cruauté et maintenant je sais: je suis cruel, parce que j'ai honte et plus j'ai honte et plus je fais du mal a celui que je torture, comme si... somme si j’étais presse de tuer en lui le juge qui me regarde, qui me méprise, qui me condamne. Voila, c'est le juge que je veux supprimer...
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam."Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?""'cos they torture people.
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- Author Courtney M. Privett
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The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.
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- Author Jus Accardo
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It was one thing to wake up feeling like I'd just been put through the puree stage of a blender- it was another to wake up feeling like I'd just been put though the puree stage of a blender to county music.
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- Author Dianna Hardy
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What in god’s name happened to your nuts?”“They met a jet-powered water hose.”He grimaced.“They’re already healing.”A rare glint of amusement lit Lawrence’s eyes. “You have balls of steel.”“You have inappropriate humour.
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- Author D. Morgenstern
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How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.
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- Author Paul Griffin
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I stole looks. First was her hair, long and loopy and pulled back. Second, she has the prettiest face, oopen-like and up-looking. Third time I looked she was studying that satellite and I saw her eyes, deep brown, almost black. She has these little scars on her chin. I like that. When a lady isn't perfect, she's a lot more perfect, I believe. - Mack
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