Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for… — Rose George Copy Share Image
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
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist… — William Blum Copy Share Image
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“You’d think I’d be used to this agony by now , but it always catches me off guard. Anyone who says grief… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen… — Iain Banks 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
And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Not many people understood the inherent pain of a career in heroics. Your body aches from the demands of day-to-day protection. Your… — Shirin Dubbin Copy Share Image
“Tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. It was as if some folks got dunked in plastic,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact.… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“… It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and… — Kane Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots,… — Hector Berlioz 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
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Savior's suffering in Gethsemane and His agony on the cross redeem us from sin by satisfying the demands that justice has… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee… — Louise Brealey Copy Share Image
“Why did death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater than we have ever known, and because death was indeed… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison Copy Share Image
![“I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said I was so good in the role [Earl Mills] that I "even managed to overcome a terrible red wig." I wanted to write her and tell her about the agony I'd gone through with the perm, but I thought better…” quote by Brent Spiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/846/brent-spiner-2999_agony_i-wanted-to-look-right-i-remember-a-revi_1430582.png)
