In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus 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
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day.… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff 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
I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Worst kind of motivation is one where people comfort you by telling about other people who have lost more than you, had… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
Eternal struggle with agony Bringing me tears of sadness I shall never love again As I fill my heart with madness... I… — KM II Copy Share Image
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the… — Courtney Giardina Copy Share Image
I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's… — George Michael Copy Share Image
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though… — William Wordsworth 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
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
We could make this work, you know." "I will knee you in the groin." "I could give you a night you will… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Truth shines with brighter light and intenser heat at every moment, and a country torn and rent and bleeding implores relief from… — Frederick Douglass 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
“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which… — William Faulkner 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
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