A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say. 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'
Soren Kierkegaard
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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes
I think in many ways they torment mainstream Americans because we worry sometimes that they may be happier than we are without some of the conveniences that we have. We worry maybe they are really happier than we are or maybe they really are doing better socially and mentally than we are.
Don Kraybill
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
Frank Crane
In my TV job as a police detective, I have to deal with some pretty cold-hearted characters. But I can't think of anything more heartless than to torment and kill animals in the name of fashion.
Charlotte Ross
It's very painful and disappointing that some major western newspapers have reprinted the cartoons tormenting the religious belief of the Muslims.
Morshed Khan
The tape shows experimenters using their power over the monkeys to torture and torment them, while lab supervisors stand by or even join in.
Ingrid Newkirk
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory
Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.
Adrienne Barbeau
There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation. They were placed perilously close to modernity, but they could not partake of it.
Fouad Ajami
Day-to-day life at the shelter doesn't change much for the lost, the abused or unwanted animals for whom the shelter provides a temporary sanctuary. The torment some of these animals have endured is shocking. Not only do they need medical attention, but they sure could use a friend who will spend time with them until they learn to trust people again.
Marlene Thompson
Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self-torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
At the popular level, Sharon has been far and away the most hated Israeli official for the past several decades. On the whole, people will simply take delight that, from their perspective, he's no longer on the scene to torment them.
Mouin Rabbani
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Jane Austen
In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.
Karl Rahner
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
Claude Monet
He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be living his life and that torment is now out of his life. I just wish he had just one more chance.
Wallis Hutchko
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
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