Quotes about Torment

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

In the Bible, Jesus says more than anyone else about Hell. He refers to it as a literal place and describes it in graphic terms. Jesus taught that in Hell the wicked suffer terribly, are fully conscious, retain their desires and memories and reasoning, long for relief, cannot be comforted, cannot leave their torment, and are bereft of hope. The Savior could not have painted a bleaker picture.

Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.

Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’

Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—