“We should have known that the only reason that Shostakovich’s nightmare restored us to ourselves was so we’d be compelled to drink… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Under every burden, …God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, …His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, …God will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
“How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable… — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that… — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
“If you are near ,my heart beats fast, If you are far, my hearts becomes restless, When you look at me,my world… — Luna Marym Copy Share Image
“Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the edge of the field Silva and Stefan witnessed heartrending images in greyscale as thousands of desperate refugees streamed down the… — John Payton Foden Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
“The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .” “Ah, yes. How much did you… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Look carefully, 99 percent face fear, anguish, pain, Bicoh, rupture and separation describe the tragedy!! Who is imagination of this world — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does… — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
