Children blessings seem, but torments are. [ Otway ]

Divines and dying men may talk of hell,
But in my heart her several torments dwell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Eternal torments, baths of boiling sulphur.
Vicissitude of fires, and then of frosts. [ Dryden ]

Suspense, of all the torments, is the most difficult to endure. [ A. de Musset ]

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. [ Colley Cibber ]

The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We think poverty to be infinitely desirable before the torments of covetousness. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead. [ D'Alembert ]

He that dies troubles his parents but once, but he that lives ill torments them perpetually. [ Proverb ]

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. [ Theophile Gautier ]

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. [ Alcibiades ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]