Quotes about Tortured

Tortured for the Republic. Votes: 3

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative. Votes: 2

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not. Votes: 2

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Votes: 2

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. Votes: 2

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. Votes: 2

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. Votes: 2

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Votes: 2

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. Votes: 2

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them. Votes: 2

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me. Votes: 2

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV. Votes: 2

I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. Votes: 2

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming. Votes: 2

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction. Votes: 2

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for. Votes: 2

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions. Votes: 2

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. Votes: 2

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior. Votes: 2

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more. Votes: 2

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console. Votes: 2

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. Votes: 2

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. Votes: 2

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood. Votes: 2

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift. Votes: 2

The tortured always remain tortured. Votes: 0

Silence is the tortured man's revenge. Votes: 0

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul. Votes: 0

Im not this tortured soul or anything. Votes: 0

James Dean was always a tortured soul. Votes: 0

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power. Votes: 0

I was arrested three times and tortured once. Votes: 0

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Votes: 0

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist. Votes: 0

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me. Votes: 0

The more I know the less tortured I am. Votes: 0

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. Votes: 0

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't? Votes: 0

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. Votes: 0

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. Votes: 0

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful. Votes: 0

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters. Votes: 0

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships. Votes: 0

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met. Votes: 0

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look. Votes: 0

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Votes: 0

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. Votes: 0

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it. Votes: 0

When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles. Votes: 0

I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you! Votes: 0

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. Votes: 0

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. Votes: 0

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. Votes: 0

Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me? Votes: 0

She already had a headache-she didn't want to add 'get tortured' to today's to-do list. Votes: 0

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. Votes: 0

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. Votes: 0

I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies. Votes: 0

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. Votes: 0

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. Votes: 0

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career. Votes: 0

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. Votes: 0

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. Votes: 0

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds. Votes: 0

I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well Votes: 0

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it. Votes: 0

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. Votes: 0

I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind. Votes: 0

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured. Votes: 0

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home. Votes: 0

Even if I'm to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have a right to fight against it. Votes: 0

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. Votes: 0

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least." Votes: 0

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts. Votes: 0

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them. Votes: 0

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. Votes: 0

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. Votes: 0

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. Votes: 0

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself. Votes: 0

I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one. Votes: 0

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood. Votes: 0

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that. Votes: 0

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way. Votes: 0

If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it. Votes: 0

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. Votes: 0

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul. Votes: 0

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do. Votes: 0

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say... Votes: 0

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun. Votes: 0

The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now. Votes: 0

Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned. Votes: 0

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it. Votes: 0

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters. Votes: 0

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. Votes: 0

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. Votes: 0

She said love her or be tortured by her. I replied, "Torture would be less painful." She didn't realize that I'm a true romantic. Votes: 0

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. Votes: 0

Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by. Votes: 0

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not. Votes: 0

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. Votes: 0

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God! Votes: 0

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. Votes: 0

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place. Votes: 0

Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed. Votes: 0

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind. Votes: 0

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time Votes: 0

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy. Votes: 0

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed! Votes: 0

I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives. Votes: 0

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat Votes: 0

I want to play the regular guy who's had a bit of a jaded past or a bit of a tortured soul because I think they're interesting. Votes: 0

I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body. Votes: 0

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech Votes: 0

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by. Votes: 0

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible. Votes: 0

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that. Votes: 0

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured. Votes: 0

Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great. Votes: 0

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul. Votes: 0

There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them. Votes: 0

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured. Votes: 0

For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable. Votes: 0

If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear "“ never to see them again "“ you send them to Egypt. Votes: 0

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. Votes: 0

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Votes: 0

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S. Votes: 0

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured. Votes: 0

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. Votes: 0

I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. 
 I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.' Votes: 0

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. Votes: 0

Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force. Votes: 0

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing. Votes: 0

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. Votes: 0

I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money. Votes: 0

He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast. Votes: 0

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive. Votes: 0

Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity. Votes: 0

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse. Votes: 0

There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals. Votes: 0

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection. Votes: 0

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act. Votes: 0

When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, "How can this interaction help me grow? Votes: 0

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation. Votes: 0

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention. Votes: 0

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship. Votes: 0

Lore? Tell me what Sin said about you being tortured wasn't true,' He didn't look at her as he moved toward the bathroom. 'It wasn't true.' 'You're lying.' 'You told me to. Votes: 0

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen. Votes: 0

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. Votes: 0

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them. Votes: 0

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. Votes: 0

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh. Votes: 0