A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“And his sobs… His soul-crushing, defeated sobs. The ones I’d felt everywhere. I’d never heard that level of agony. I’d felt it… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a… — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
“At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense he experienced it with all five senses: as a… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“... He'd been about to turn away when she lifted her face to the moon and sang. It was not in any… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The Serpent lies in the scalding cage; it wakes, rigid with pain. The King stands outside the bars, her face twisted with… — Kylie Chan Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I had witnessed his pain in motion; the way he had stroked over the sea fueled by something so similar to what… — Marni Mann Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry'… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Dare I hint at that worse time when, strung together somewhere in great black space, there was a flaming necklace, or ring,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you weren't here and Oma died, I'd deal with it. Because there'd be nothing more to lose. It'd be just me.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or… — Shoma Morita Copy Share Image
“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The crying… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the… — Tom Heinsohn Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“Warm, buttery sunlight through the leaves, setting them glowing like rubies and citrines. The damp, earthen scent of rotting things beneath the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Why do people picture hell as this endless mass of naked bodies writhing in agony? That is like, so extreme, and, well,… — Cellan Slarcas Copy Share Image
From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge.… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
