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
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
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
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
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
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
“He opened his palm and saw that the watch remained. Still there. Still real. Varen looked up at the figure that stood… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“DISTRACTED with care For Phillis the fair, Since nothing could move her, Poor Damon, her lover, Resolves in despair No longer to… — William Walsh Copy Share Image
“If it would help humanity or the course of the War by so much as one iota, I would gladly sit all… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“But I am, Tony! I am!” she snapped as she stomped away while simultaneously lighting a Marlboro. Ardina walked to the pool… — C. B. Blaha Copy Share Image
“What Karen wants to do - needs to do - is cry, but she can't. Here, alone, when she could howl, beat… — Sarah Rayner Copy Share Image
Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real,… — Maria Popova 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
Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love,… — David Richo 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
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
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one… — Kalidasa Copy Share Image
“Oh boy! The pain will vanish maybe. But the anguish? That feeling of being robbed off all dignity, for having worn her… — Nitya Prakash Copy Share Image
I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and… — James Thomson Copy Share Image
“The moment was like a tear in the fabric of their love play; underneath, the dark waters of past and future anguish… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“…hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to… — Jessica Powers Copy Share Image
“What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear… — Francois Jacob 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
What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
