My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities],… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen… — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Copy Share Image
He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out;… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
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
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create — Anonymous Copy Share Image
