O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.” — Emm Cole Copy Share Image
With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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
“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
“However oppressed by my own or others' anguish, I am not to forget that there is more in the world than this,… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Silence Only tears As I press the blade Against my pale skin Red The blood flows From the wounds Echoing my inner… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time… — Tony Bishop 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
“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
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in… — David Wolpe 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
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
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
