Torture proverbs

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◆ Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

- Lucy Grealy98

◆ Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers.

- C.S. Lewis98

◆ Two similar words might lead to two similar ideas. They might also lead to the basement, which I recently converted into a dungeon/torture chamber. ?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child with no hair on his upper lip and with wide open eyes, make as if to touch his forehead gently with one's hand and run one's fingers through his beautiful hair. Then suddenly, when he is least expecting it, to dig one's long nails into his soft breast, making sure, though, that one does not kill him; for if he died, one would not later be able to contemplate his agonies. Then one drinks his blood as one licks his wounds; and during this time, which ought to last for eternity, the child weeps.

- Comte de Lautréamont98

◆ Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt.

- J.M. Coetzee98

◆ Too many abused beers have suffered in the name of networking. Let us find a better way to mix torture and business.?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!

- Charles Dickens98

◆ It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable.

- Christopher Hitchens98

◆ When Lisa awoke she was back in the cell on the floor covered in her own blood, dirt, and urine. And that was only day 1.

- Mia Moore98

◆ I killed him, but that doesn't mean I enjoyed every second of every month of the torture process.

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ Yeah, he'd yield. He was a bad cut of steak left on the open grill too long, though—the general's teeth wouldn't be enough to do the job.

- Rhi Etzweiler98

◆ A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already.

- Kelley Armstrong98

◆ I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

- Shannon A. Thompson98

◆ My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.

- Mary Shelley98

◆ It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!

- Jesse Ventura98