Tormented Quotes

Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth.
Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness: then it hates its life-cage and seeks further, And finds, if it is powerful enough. But instantly the private agony that made the search Muddles the finding. Then search for truth is foredoomed and frustrate? Only stained fragments? Until the mind has turned its love from itself and man, from parts to the whole. - Robinson Jeffers

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We will briefly mention some peculiarities frequently manifested by a degenerate. He is tormented by doubts, seeks for the basis of all phenomena, especially those whose first causes are completely inaccessible to us, and is unhappy when his inquiries and ruminations lead, as is natural, to no result. - Max Nordau

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. - Richard Steele

Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. - William Butler Yeats

This is one of the most tormented decisions that I've had to make. It's for the taxpayers money in this county. - Monroe Benaim

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. - Albert Claude

There's the clown in House, there's an adolescent in him, a child, a playful side. There's also a tormented self-destroyer as well. I get the best of all possible worlds. - Hugh Laurie