“ Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a baby, settling in its skin, safe in… — Marcus Amaker Copy Share Image
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“When clouds of pain loom in the sky When a shadow of sadness flickers by When a tear finds its way to… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
“And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend, Sought once again the shore, and found a shell, And thought, I will… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world; even grief… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“To think that just when one's happiness is full to overflowing, and one is thoroughly in love with life, there should come… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“In years to come, if the book was still in his possession, I wanted him to ache. Better yet, I wanted someone… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“Poem For Laura" Now come the bright prophets across my life. The solemn fl esh, the miracles, and the pain. Across the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Why should I be with you if there's pain and sorrow? Why should I dream with you if there's no tomorrow? Now… — Sheryl Caparas Copy Share Image
“The sun was gone, and the moon was coming Over the blue Connecticut hills; The west was rosy, the east was flushed,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
