284 Quotes About Torture

Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."(Almansor)

When they torture me, they show they're weak.When I survive, I show them I'm stronger.

His broken rib was stabbing into his side. The pain was torture, but he did not have time to think about it. He loaded a new magazine and continued shooting.

Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.

This world that I live in is empty and cold; the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.