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
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl 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
“Today you are walking in Paris the women are all steeped in blood It was and I'd rather not remember it was… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in… — John Hay Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full… — Charles Baudelaire 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
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
“What grief is not taken away by time? What passion will survive an unequal battle with it? I knew a man in… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too… — Paul Hamilton Hayne Copy Share Image
“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about… — Algernon Blackwood 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
Hell is hot, fire. But I tell you, you are providing your own coal. This is how things are: If you move… — Rajneesh 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
“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
No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over… — Brennan Manning 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
Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him. — Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di Copy Share Image
I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
