Quotes of: Torturers Keyword

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Jon Bon Jovi

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

Francisco Costa

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

Albert Camus

This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my inferiority. This gradual anger over one humiliation after another may be hard for men to understand and even women who have n...

Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders

There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history has shown “the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of al...

Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture y...

The Name of the Rose

When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and...

Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

What does it take to break a person? Torturers and interrogators would be able to provide statistics. This many nights without sleep, this many needles, this much water, this voltage of current on this many occasions. But there is considerable variat...

John Ajvide Lindqvist

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is art itself). And your worrying about this ought not to be a tortured thing - God knows...

Blake Bailey

How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life? We might, as a society, slowly find it pos...

Valerie Sinason

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

Diary

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

Emily of New Moon

Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death.

The Falconer and The Wolf

Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.

God's Daughter

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?" "Pressure. Weight. Heat..." "The geological equivalent of torture.

The God in Flight

She already had a headache-she didn't want to add 'get tortured' to today's to-do list.

Born at Midnight

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, —that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

1984

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

Arjun: Without a Doubt

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

Anna Karenina

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

Mosquito