9 Metaphors for tormenting

that when love and jealousy come together, the torment is the greatest in the world.

Their torments are milder, and amid them they discourse on the principles of moral wisdom.

" "A torment and a tease," "It's an autocrat and anarchist," "Two awful things to please.

This world so full of flowers and sunshine and the laughter of children is not a cursed lost world, and the 'endless torment' of the confession is not God's, nor Christ's, nor the Bible's idea of future punishment.

In calm theological reasoning, he could demonstrate, in the dryest tone, that, if the eternal torment of six bodies and souls were absolutely the necessary means for preserving the eternal blessedness of thirty-six, benevolence would require us to rejoice in it, not in itself considered, but in view of greater good.

His last bank note carried him down to Whitford; and, calm and determined, as one who feels that he has nothing more to lose on earth, and whose torment must henceforth become his element, he entered the Priory that evening.

Listen!Listen to the confused murmur that arises from the human depths, and that, comprising in it all tears, all torments, as well as all joys, becomes the sigh of creation.

The greatest torments, as well as the most frequent, that beset man spring from the discordances in us all between duty and desire, between duty and performance (Vollbringen); and it is these discordances that so often embarrass man during his earthly course.

" "A torment and a tease," "It's an autocrat and anarchist," "Two awful things to please.

9 Metaphors for  tormenting