"Self-torture" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only it be looked for with patience and sincerity, and he would find it. Surely there was a greater wisdom than mere contempt of wealth and comfort, surely a greater happiness than could be found in self-torture and hysteria. And so, as he could find no one to teach him, he went out into the forest to look for truth there. In the great forest where no one comes, where the deer feed and the tiger creeps, he would seek what man could not give him. They ...
— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding
... says in a low voice:] Because I seem to find a sort of—of salutary self-torture in allowing Aline to do ...
— The Master Builder • Henrik Ibsen
... disconcerting. Some one must have been drilling them, thought their anxious teacher, in the art of simultaneous squatting. The temper of the class respecting scholastic deportment leaned towards rigidity bordering on self-torture. ...
— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning
... can serve Him if he lays on blows like this?" But when he got the answer, "How else could He subdue the stubborn heads?" this sensible argument could not console the young man. With fervid desire to find the incomprehensible God, he searched all his thoughts and dreams with self-torture. Every earthly thought, every beat of his youthful blood, became for him a cruel wrong. He began to despair of himself; he wrestled in unceasing prayer, fasted and scourged himself. At one time the priests had to break ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various |
