Synonyms for Tortures
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1. List of paraphrases for "tortures":

   torture

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1. Isaac Asimov:

   I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

2. Lord Byron:

   And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

3. Sir Arthur Eddington:

   Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

4. John Updike:

   The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

5. Nicholas Chamfort:

   An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.