my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
What does this Daimon look like? (Xedrix) He’s tall and blond. (Kyle) Well, that narrows it down to every Daimon here except… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Why did he sit so near and keep his eye on her? Why did they not have done with this searching and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the… — Yann Martel 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
“I touch his cheek, see my hand shake, and quickly pull it back. He grabs my wrist, places my palm back against… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the time annihilates all reason and… — William Henry Bulwer Copy Share Image
