Kindlehighlight Quote by Kay Kenyon

“Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror,…

— Norman Mailer

“God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.”

— John D. Richardson

“He did not begin by tearing down, or by painting so intense a picture of misery and injustice that you burned to change the…

— Dorothy Day

“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land,…

— Mervyn Peake

“Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.”

— Barbara Vine

“But when a god             strikes harm, a worse man often foils his better.”

— Sophocles

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“I know nothing about God, except that His pleasure is as terrifying as His displeasure.”

— José Saramago

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“he expected after the pleasant days GOD had given him, he should have his turn of pain and suffering; but that he was not…

— Brother Lawrence

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

“When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to speak to…

— Naomi Ragen