Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.
Mark Hoppus

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Charles Manson

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Salvatore Quasimodo

How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Pierre Corneille

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
Joseph Haydn

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Marquis de Sade

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
Laurence Olivier

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Theodore Roethke

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Epicurus

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
Georges Rouault

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. Baldwin

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes