The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms,… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok 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
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
“Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding the sign of its… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Jane Austen 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
“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical &… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Grief does not kill the light...it reveals it…Agony does not kill the ecstasy…it unfolds it…Dark does not extinguish the Dawn...it unwinds it…” — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
We may writhe in agony from pain Or laugh out loud when we find happiness As long as we're alive tomorrow will… — Miho Obana Copy Share Image
I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“But I wouldn’t sit in my room, couldn’t allow myself to mourn and mope and weep and sleep. So I would venture… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it… — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While… — Carson McCullers 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
At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“He who avoids suffering today, in his test of life for what his quest is to be, will cry out tomorrow, a… — Mercedes Keyes Copy Share Image
I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so… — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
“We lost them in the vastness of their dresses and found them again, squeezed the pulp of their bodies and inhaled the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony…” think of this when you kill a cockroach or pick up a razor… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror.… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
