Fear Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“His anguish had grown skeletal in its solitude. He wished it didn’t have to be so, that one could ingest pain and keep it…

— Tatjana Soli

“He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked. You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain.”

— Marcel Proust

“It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.”

— Melina Marchetta

“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I’d been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“He sat looking down at his hands--his fine strong unscarred hands. Suddenly and unreasonably he thought of another pair of hands--his mother's--with the knuckles…

— Edna Ferber

“Everything he did was a physical thing.  When he spoke, my bones ached.  When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on…

— Tyra Lynn

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.”

— Glen Duncan

“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every…

— Lawrence Durrell

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw…

— William Somerset Maugham