In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis 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
Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated,… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
“Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
[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
“But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before..… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
“The degree of satisfaction and relief lessened each time she opened a new wound, each time she drank a mouthful of her… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does… — Anonymous 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
But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
“But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image