Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!'… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in… — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from… — Annalee Skarin Copy Share Image
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young… — Lynda Lee-Potter Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Amren,' Varian said, and sank onto his knees. 'I am begging you-' ... She looked to Varian, a wry smile on her… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among… — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
“I sunk to my knees in the spot he had left me. I felt a part of me had just been lost.… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
