1 He drove away thought; thought tortured him.
2 And if you were to torture her, she wouldn't do wrong.
3 Terror gripped his heart like ice, tortured him and numbed him.
4 Didn't I tell you plainly enough to-day that you were torturing me, that I was.
5 So he tortured himself, fretting himself with such questions, and finding a kind of enjoyment in it.
6 When she had gone, Sonia began to be tortured by the dread of his committing suicide, and Dounia too feared it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 7 But he saw how monstrously the thought of her disgraceful, shameful position was torturing her and had long tortured her.
8 But he saw how monstrously the thought of her disgraceful, shameful position was torturing her and had long tortured her.
9 She is simply thirsting to face some torture for someone, and if she can't get her torture, she'll throw herself out of a window.
10 The conviction that all his faculties, even memory, and the simplest power of reflection were failing him, began to be an insufferable torture.
11 His mother's letter had been a torture to him, but as regards the chief fact in it, he had felt not one moment's hesitation, even whilst he was reading the letter.
12 "I will not allow myself to be tortured," he whispered, instantly recognising with hatred that he could not help obeying the command and driven to even greater fury by the thought.
13 The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he did not know what to do with himself to escape from his wretchedness.
14 Long, long ago his present anguish had its first beginnings; it had waxed and gathered strength, it had matured and concentrated, until it had taken the form of a fearful, frenzied and fantastic question, which tortured his heart and mind, clamouring insistently for an answer.
15 The light soon died away, but the look of suffering remained, and Zossimov, watching and studying his patient with all the zest of a young doctor beginning to practise, noticed in him no joy at the arrival of his mother and sister, but a sort of bitter, hidden determination to bear another hour or two of inevitable torture.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III