I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death,… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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
The female experience throughout the history of Korea has been accompanied by physical and mental anguish. This negative aspect of Korean history… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
When I think of Britain, I don't think of these lofty ideals which once held sway like the stoic upper lip. I… — Kele Okereke Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image