Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any… — Charles Bukowski 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
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
Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone… — Kelvin Ogilvie 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
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
I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
