“She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony. — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
“There was pain and then there was agony. Hello, agony. I’d been waiting for you. Finish me off. Please.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
“Promise me," she gasped, fighting to speak through the agony that gripped her. "Anything, little one." "Don't… don't forget me…” — Trisha Baker Copy Share Image
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry… — Rukmini Devi Arundale Copy Share Image
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his… — Nicholas A. Basbanes Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
