Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. — Edmund Waller 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
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in… — Stacy Aumonier 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
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!'… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So… — Emily Dickinson 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
O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“The warp was the source of so much anguish for us, and yet its absence generated the greatest abhorrence of all. I… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .” “Ah, yes. How much did you… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner 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
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
