Abuse Quote by Patricia Hampl

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties,…

— Anne Brontë

“There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just…

— John Wyndham

“When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we…

— Anne Brontë

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

— Edward Hirsch

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise…

— Lady Gaga

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by…

— George Steiner

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

— Ricky Williams

“Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them…

— Tracy K. Smith

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those…

— Ian McEwan

“And so when you have lost everything, no more roads, no direction, no fixed signs, no ground, no thoughts able to resist other thoughts,…

— Hélène Cixous