“Come to me now and loosen me from blunt agony. Labor and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me and be… — Sappho Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Watching other male standups doing anecdotes better than I do is agony. — Ivo Graham Copy Share Image
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry… — Rukmini Devi Arundale Copy Share Image
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response.… — Susan Sontag 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“The first ripple of unease hit him. He lifted his head for a moment, and his prey’s blood spurted out. He bent… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his… — Nicholas A. Basbanes Copy Share Image
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is… — Quentin Crisp 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
