The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day.… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
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Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror.… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Sam's hand wavered. His mind was hot with wrath and the memory of evil. I would be just to slay this treacherous,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Worst kind of motivation is one where people comfort you by telling about other people who have lost more than you, had… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the… — Courtney Giardina Copy Share Image
I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's… — George Michael Copy Share Image
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
Eternal struggle with agony Bringing me tears of sadness I shall never love again As I fill my heart with madness... I… — KM II Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
We could make this work, you know." "I will knee you in the groin." "I could give you a night you will… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die, And whirl upon the wheel, and… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
But when the other end of the line picked up, it was his voicemail that answered, not the man himself. "I know… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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