The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and… — William James Copy Share Image
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga;… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside. She is gone, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“To the west, the sinking sun was a red orb, streaking the evening sky with wisps of dark gray and pink. Loretta… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Suffering is the nature of this world. It is the golden standard by which all things are measured. It is not happiness… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that… — Margaret Junkin Preston Copy Share Image
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Why did everyone always paint love as pretty rainbows and happily ever afters? It wasn't any of that. To love was to… — Kate McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share Image
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
i will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
“A tearing thrusts this vacant heart Brutal agony does prevail. Incessantly battling for Victory’s love, Its resolute intents to no avail .… — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Bell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before… — Larry Lea Copy Share Image
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
