“The Serpent lies in the scalding cage; it wakes, rigid with pain. The King stands outside the bars, her face twisted with… — Kylie Chan Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“doing? Was it agony?’ ‘Horrendous. I had no idea these things go on for so long either. They were talking about an… — Rebecca Boxall Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough,… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
“It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Arobynn hit her-her ribs, her jaw, her gut. And her face. Again and again and again. Careful blows, meant to inflict as… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here then is a great # truth . In the # pain , the # agony , and the # heroic endeavors… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will… — CSTPimentel Copy Share Image
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside. She is gone, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Suffering is the nature of this world. It is the golden standard by which all things are measured. It is not happiness… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“To the west, the sinking sun was a red orb, streaking the evening sky with wisps of dark gray and pink. Loretta… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his… — Nicholas A. Basbanes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“The first ripple of unease hit him. He lifted his head for a moment, and his prey’s blood spurted out. He bent… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
“Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the horrible… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it… — Zachary Macaulay Copy Share Image
“We live this life, full of agony, despair,and pain. Living day by day, having no clue of what will happen, after a… — Junior Isaac Copy Share Image
