“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.” MenWorldFeelsWholePainHalfMiseryPityAgonyYardsBellyRoaringBeside You Author:Erich Maria Remarque
“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.” MenWayMayDifferentCharacterHandsMightSpiritTurnsSourceBuiltAgonyFabricHumiliationStraws Book:The Fabric of Memory Source: The Fabric of Memory
“No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.” MenWorldYearsTwoWorkCitiesHe ManSorrowEternalStandardsLaborCrossesLonelyWanderThirtyShopsVillageAgonyHomelessObscureSuccess And FailureShamefulCarpenterTrue Life Author:Frederic Farrar
“The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.” MenHeartHas BeensHandsLastsSufferingFeltHoursAnimalKnownHeardDogMastersCreaturesStonesAgonyRemorseCaressNotoriousOperatorsVivisectionHeart Of Stone Author:Charles Darwin
“The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.” MenBelieveSelfEqualAtheistSaintObligationAgonyEnglishmen Book:Picked-up Pieces Source: Picked-up Pieces