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
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — Orhan Pamuk 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
In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that… — Edith Stein 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
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
“If you are near ,my heart beats fast, If you are far, my hearts becomes restless, When you look at me,my world… — Luna Marym 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
My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
