Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.
How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would recall places where I had been or things I had done as if from a dream, which made the playback of my father and other men ...
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents.
Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
Lucifer wasn't sure what to say. He'd survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.
...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean." "Wow that would be terrific," I said
Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.
I prefer love songs to any other form of torture.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.
Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.
I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose, and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!
Different people have different ideas. We need to kill them—the ideas, not the people. The people we just need to torture.
Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
Standing in the kitchen when you’re hungry is torture. That’s why I moved my fridge to my dungeon, where I keep the prisoners.
