“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“…had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.” — Daisy Ashford Copy Share Image
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.” — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
“YEAH, I KNOW. You guys are going to read about how I died in agony, and you’re going be like, “Wow! That… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. — David S. Rose Copy Share Image
The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a… — Lucy Ellmann Copy Share Image
There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult -… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person?… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“She remembers blood. A fine mist which goes deep into her lungs, over her skin and through the air. She remembers a… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating. — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
“She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real.” — R. A. Nelson Copy Share Image
If I was going to go out tonight, I was going to go out fighting. Or screaming in agony. Either way. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Watching other male standups doing anecdotes better than I do is agony. — Ivo Graham Copy Share Image
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Come to me now and loosen me from blunt agony. Labor and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me and be… — Sappho Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
