In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish… — Kabir Copy Share Image
“However oppressed by my own or others' anguish, I am not to forget that there is more in the world than this,… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among… — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones.… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
