Agony Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that…

— Diego Rivera

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.…

— Cheryl Strayed

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

— Charles Dickens

It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as…

— Stephenie Meyer

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted…

— Alexandra Bracken

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my…

— Elie Wiesel

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

— Lorna Luft

Fantastic answer by a philosopher to a question asked at the BBC...Define Birthday?? Answer:The only day in your life,when u cried and your mother…

— Ur My Destiny

My mother died on my birthday.

— Shannon Briggs

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like…

— Albert Camus

The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too,…

— Jonny Bairstow