“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Truth shines with brighter light and intenser heat at every moment, and a country torn and rent and bleeding implores relief from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
I've once been quiet and aloof, a loner who trusted no one. That time, I realized that I've grown timid with lot… — Vince Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“My eyes moved over his face. His chiseled jaw and high cheekbones twisted in agony. Even writhing he was beautiful, muscles clenching… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
Each night, I find my self laying in my dark room, Hating my self, Locking away my heart and throwing the key,… — Oliviatheuglliestofthemall Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“All marriages are like this. The component parts are contempt and irritation because we know each other by heart, by rote; we're… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“My disbelief paralyzes me temporarily as I stare at the sight of my arm vanishing into an implausibly small gap between the… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground,… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“Not always do those who dare such divine conflict prevail. Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who… — Jerome Drayton Copy Share Image
“Man on his own is impotent and because of this impotence and the idea that he can do everything, there is a… — Osho Copy Share Image
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm sorry if I'm scared. I'm sorry if I'm depressed. I'm sorry if I'm mean. I'm sorry if I'm suffering. I'm sorry… — Leslie Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fear stemmed from the unknown. The agony was in the need to make a choice. Weighing the options, trying to predict… — Kelly Walker Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko’s public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
