It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties?… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Before I had a kid, I was off in some kind of cosmic state all of the time, and thinking about the… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Bearing ourselves humbly before God ... we await undismayed the impending assault ... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this… — Andre Derain Copy Share Image
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as… — Nujood Ali Copy Share Image
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would… — Jerri Nielsen Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Let your strength from the past provide proof of your abilities to . . . conquer the difficulties of the present.” — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
