“Truth shines with brighter light and intenser heat at every moment, and a country torn and rent and bleeding implores relief from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who… — Jerome Drayton Copy Share Image
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity.… — Steven Erikson 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
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots,… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison Copy Share Image
“Why did death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater than we have ever known, and because death was indeed… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee… — Louise Brealey Copy Share Image
“Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I've once been quiet and aloof, a loner who trusted no one. That time, I realized that I've grown timid with lot… — Vince Copy Share Image
“The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fear stemmed from the unknown. The agony was in the need to make a choice. Weighing the options, trying to predict… — Kelly Walker Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm sorry if I'm scared. I'm sorry if I'm depressed. I'm sorry if I'm mean. I'm sorry if I'm suffering. I'm sorry… — Leslie Copy Share Image
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
“Man on his own is impotent and because of this impotence and the idea that he can do everything, there is a… — Osho Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko’s public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
