#torture

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#end #get #getting #itself #nowhere

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#case #i #moment #off #torture

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#inquisition #instruments #iron #old #rack

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#i think #person #sure #talk #think

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

#i #morning #screams #stop #then

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality

…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members …most victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation” (Pg. 35-36) ↗

— Chrystine Oksana

#abuse-of-power #cult #dissociation #fear #healing

The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present. ↗

— Mike Norton

#illusion #love #nostalgia #sadness #the-past

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#dreams #god #power #rest #torture

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

— Lucy Grealy

#life #self-consciousness #sharp #torture #life