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The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp – JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)	added by gracesouthern3 7 months ago
A person who torments others does not sleep well. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
There will be times when you will experience the torments of life. Despite the difficulties, keep moving, and you will move toward the happiness you want. – Aurora Berill	added by auroraberill 4 years ago
You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity. – MG	added by murali_m 5 years ago
I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
The prophet Muhammad considered immolation to be reprehensible, He said, ‘Only the lord of fire torments with fire.’ What did they accomplish by burning [the pilot] did they think the war the bombardments would stop? – Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph de Maistre	added by anonymous 9 years ago
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. – William Blake	added by anonymous 9 years ago
“I still cannot decide whether to tell you more comprehensively of some of my experiences – the main thing is that you know I am alive and well. How the thought always torments me, that I have no idea how Edith and the children are, you no doubt understand. I do however hope to see all well again and I do not want to lose hope.’ – Otto Frank	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. – William Blake	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works. – Eugène Delacroix	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace. – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . . – Stan Openshaw - Doomsday	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. – Susanna Moodie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp

– JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)

added by gracesouthern3
7 months ago

A person who torments others does not sleep well.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

There will be times when you will experience the torments of life. Despite the difficulties, keep moving, and you will move toward the happiness you want.

– Aurora Berill

added by auroraberill
4 years ago

You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity.

– MG

added by murali_m
5 years ago

I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

The prophet Muhammad considered immolation to be reprehensible, He said, ‘Only the lord of fire torments with fire.’ What did they accomplish by burning [the pilot] did they think the war the bombardments would stop?

– Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

– Joseph de Maistre

added by anonymous
9 years ago

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

– William Blake

added by anonymous
9 years ago

“I still cannot decide whether to tell you more comprehensively of some of my experiences – the main thing is that you know I am alive and well. How the thought always torments me, that I have no idea how Edith and the children are, you no doubt understand. I do however hope to see all well again and I do not want to lose hope.’

– Otto Frank

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

– William Blake

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.

– Eugène Delacroix

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .

– Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

– Susanna Moodie

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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