Torture Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.”

Michel de Montaigne

Torture, Truth, Justice, Human Rights, Critique

2. “I can assure you of one thing, – the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.”

Alexandre Dumas

Death Torture, Expiation Belief, Acceptance Mortality, Death, Torture, Mortality

3. “He condemned these unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, but found them all insufficient, because after the torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least that insensibility that resembles it.”

Alexandre Dumas

Horrible Torture, Persecutors Fate, Imagined Pain, Torture, Fate, Pain

4. “The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.”

Charles Baudelaire

Love Torture, Poetic Comparison, Love, Torture

5. “Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.”

Charles Baudelaire

Torture Nonsense, Truth Discovery, Spiritual Art, Torture, Truth, Spiritual

6. “So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Moral Consequences, Social Corruption, Ethical Reflection, Morality, Torture, Consequences

7. “Fine art is the only teacher except torture.”

George Bernard Shaw

Art’s Tough Lesson, Educational Irony, Artistic Insight, Art, Teacher, Torture

8. “The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.”

Toni Morrison

Mental Struggle, Emotional Torture, Personal Freedom, Struggle, Torture, Freedom

9. “For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Brain Torture, Inventive Cruelty, Mental Agony, Torture, Cruelty, Agony

10. “Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Beauty Questioned, Tortured Love, Exasperating Feelings, Beauty, Love, Torture

11. “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.”

Michelangelo

Tireless Work, Artistic Sacrifice, Torture, Weary, Years, Friends

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