At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
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As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“There is something strange about agony; the memory of it can be terribly short-lived when the contrast of revival and a pretty… — Ronald Everett Capps Copy Share Image
... was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly,… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
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Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the… — Tom Van Vleck 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
Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
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“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see!… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person?… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
“Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
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