My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I… — James Gosling 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
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
“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
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
“I sunk to my knees in the spot he had left me. I felt a part of me had just been lost.… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones.… — Queen Noor of Jordan 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When by the flood of your tears, the inner and the outer have fused into One, you will find Her whom you… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life. — Amy Grant 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
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That… — Tasha Smith Copy Share Image
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But for a song like 'Paprika,' I typically feel like I need to experience anguish a lot of the time to feel… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — Orhan Pamuk 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
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
