“Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who… — Jerome Drayton Copy Share Image
“The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
I've once been quiet and aloof, a loner who trusted no one. That time, I realized that I've grown timid with lot… — Vince Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it… — Hermann Hesse 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
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
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 the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fear stemmed from the unknown. The agony was in the need to make a choice. Weighing the options, trying to predict… — Kelly Walker Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
“Man on his own is impotent and because of this impotence and the idea that he can do everything, there is a… — Osho Copy Share Image
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm sorry if I'm scared. I'm sorry if I'm depressed. I'm sorry if I'm mean. I'm sorry if I'm suffering. I'm sorry… — Leslie Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko’s public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“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
“To exhaustion and beyond they prayed, to that glittering place where the flesh dies and is born again, where all is agony,… — Junot Díaz 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
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
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