Anguish Quote by Betty Smith Download Open image “They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.” — Betty Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anguish Compassion No compassion Suffering
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. — Fred Hollows Copy Share Image
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. “People said they… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
By choice they made themselves immune To pity and whatever moans in man Before the last sea and the hapless stars; Whatever mourns when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only way I can process it is through my faith. That God was not going to let suffer all this in vain. Why… — Rabia Chaudry Copy Share Image
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
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“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
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“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“He put his forehead against hers. “Alannah, my heart is yours.” He said softly. “And yet, I must hand it over to someone else… — B.C. Morin Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human… — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. — Natalie Wood 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 you anguish… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The… — David Gemmell 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 is half… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
