Torture Quotes

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

I crawled. I could not speak or see Save dimly. The ice glared like fire, A long bright Hell of choking cold, And each vein was a tautened wire, Throbbing with torture and I crawled. My hands were wounds. So I attained The second Hell.

Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

They never forgot That even the most dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

Of course, Master!" cried the many. "It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!

No matter what those tortures, no matter how difficult the task?

Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.

Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.

Welcome to the playground of the tortured and the damned.

The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example.

There are no longer torture chambers or rape rooms or mass graves in Iraq.

We do not torture.

And a firm will, and a deep sense, Which even in torture can descry Its own concenter'd recompense, Triumphant where it dares defy