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How to use the word tormented in a Sentence?

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Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

This would have been far better off if we would've just taken care of this behind the scenes, this never would've been exposed, that funding would've been restored and our relationship with Ukraine would've been far better off than it is today... I'm sympathetic with President Trump as he's been tormented( since) the day after the election.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Without doubt, even moments of great difficulty, of tormented decisions of Christian and human prudence, that to some could have seemed like reticence, were instead attempts, humanly very difficult, to keep the light of humanitarian initiatives, of hidden but active diplomacy lit, in periods of greatest darkness and cruelty, in the hope of a possible opening of hearts.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's really unfair that people can't get a real hearing, and they get put on a list and nobody can tell them why they're there, and they go through for years and years and they have to be tormented. It just doesn't make any sense.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There was a message in the story and why the rape needed to be there… but maybe the scene could have been left out, as tormented as the male character was.

– Gabriela Tagliavini

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Silence encourages the tormentors not the tormented

– anon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

– James Baldwin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.

– James A Michener, Iberia

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

– George Santayana

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

– Joseph Addison

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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