“I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share Image
“Why did everyone always paint love as pretty rainbows and happily ever afters? It wasn't any of that. To love was to… — Kate McCarthy Copy Share Image
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Bell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Aedion shifted on his pallet of moldy hay and bit back his bark of agony at the pain exploding along his ribs.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Burn wounds always elicited pain more terrible than anything else he had ever endured. He didn’t relish the idea of forcing himself… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There… — Alice O. Howell Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that… — Margaret Junkin Preston Copy Share Image
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga;… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all… — Susan Lydon Copy Share Image
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
