Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost:… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The Torment turned his head to him, and frowned. "Who are you?" "I'm... sorry? It's me, it's Vaurien. Vaurien Scapegrace. I... built… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me.… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The girl's the Michelangelo of torture. She'd paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with a scalpel.She is so ruthlessly skilled, she'll… — Morgan Chalfant Copy Share Image
Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Let us not be afraid of “saying” what we are “seeing” without censoring anything, or looking away and playing hide and seek.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
