They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist. — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“An obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face.” — Andrew Hussie Copy Share Image
“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.” — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the… — Edgar Morin Copy Share Image
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
“Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Hell is hot, fire. But I tell you, you are providing your own coal. This is how things are: If you move… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“No" she jerked back, stared up at him. Her eyes were like thunderclouds. He'd never seen them like that. Shock and fear… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image