Claude Monet
Painter
"I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture."
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Torture
116 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Meriwether Lewis
Explorer, Author
"The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences."
Doyle Brunson
Poker Player
"When you go card dead its torture just sitting there."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"Love is a reciprocal torture."
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"There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way."
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"To teach is part of the very fabric of learning."
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"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"
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"Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture."
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"Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture."
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"As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture."
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"Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy"
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"Now it is nothing but torture."
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"Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture."
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"Point shoes are torture devices."
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"Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason."
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"There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them."
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"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them."
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"I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted."
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"Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone."
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"Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'"
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"If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture."
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"Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature."
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"To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures."
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"People love that monkey torture."
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