The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms,… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical &… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of… — Fredric March Copy Share Image
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of… — T. Babington Macaulay Copy Share Image
“I wanted to die,” she suddenly wailed, feeling him flinch, seeing the pain that tightened his face and made his own tears… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Grief does not kill the light...it reveals it…Agony does not kill the ecstasy…it unfolds it…Dark does not extinguish the Dawn...it unwinds it…” — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
“But I wouldn’t sit in my room, couldn’t allow myself to mourn and mope and weep and sleep. So I would venture… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it… — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We may writhe in agony from pain Or laugh out loud when we find happiness As long as we're alive tomorrow will… — Miho Obana Copy Share Image
I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“He who avoids suffering today, in his test of life for what his quest is to be, will cry out tomorrow, a… — Mercedes Keyes Copy Share Image
“one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony…” think of this when you kill a cockroach or pick up a razor… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“We lost them in the vastness of their dresses and found them again, squeezed the pulp of their bodies and inhaled the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so… — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image