He wasnotfitfor marriage, only for work. A major writer, he conceded, required major torment.

-Bergreen, Laurence
  Of  James  Agee.  James  Agee.

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation14:11.

When red wine had brought red ruin And the death-dance of our times, Heaven sent us Soda Water As a torment for our crimes.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 4. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

-Daniel, Samuel
  Delia, sonnet 54.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, IsöLove, forgive us!öcinders, ashes, dust; Love in a palace is perhaps at last More grievous torment than a hermit's fast.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Lamia', pt.2, l.1^4.

   And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

-Milton,John
  Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.119^21.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in everyage to save those that have no imagination?

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Saint  Joan, epilogue.