I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“you are good but you are too emotional the way to whip life is to quietly frame the agony,study it and put… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official,… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
“No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“Every man or woman who loves, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it… — Stephen Roche Copy Share Image
Knowing he was suffering pained me. That’s the way love tangles you up. I couldn’t stop loving him, and couldn’t shut off… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Religion has convinced people that theres an invisible man ¦ Living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel… — Esther Rantzen Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
