How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.
50 abandon agony anger angry annapurna anorexia austen back beauty bed betray bovary brave bronte chatterley cloud comedy contemporary courage crime dante death decision deep depression descent desire disappointment divine divorce drama dysfunction elated emotion enchant erotic esteem everest eyre family father feeling fiction fifty fire forgive gasherbrum greed grief growth happy hardship heal heartbreak heaven hell help hiking honesty inauthenticity isolation jane journey juicy justice kissed life literary loneliness lonely loss love loveless lucy lust mad marriage married money mother mountaineering moving murder nine packing pageant passage passion personal philosophy poetry possess prejudice pretty pride purgatory redeem regret relationship remorse resurrect revelation romance romantic sad secrets self separate seven sex shades sin sons soul spirituality stars steamy strong suicide summits tibet time transformation trapped travel triumph trust unbearable unhappy union white-collar woman women
Download Image Share on X Share on Facebook

About This Quote

Themes

  • Anger — Managing emotion, frustration, and the fires within
  • Beauty — Appreciating aesthetics, grace, and the sublime
  • Courage — Facing fear, adversity, and uncertainty with bravery
  • Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave
  • Family — The ties of kinship, parenting, and unconditional love
  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life
  • Love — Quotes exploring romantic love, compassion, and human connection
  • Marriage — Partnership, commitment, and the journey of shared life
  • Money — Thoughts on wealth, value, and material pursuits
  • Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality
  • Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression
  • Soul — The inner self, consciousness, and spiritual essence
  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

Related Quotes

“If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.”
— Richie Norton
50 deadline double half

“Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late.”
— Haruki Murakami
50 evolution grandfather

“Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.”
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
abandon afraid detract detraction

“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been outrun by fear rather than having run out of heart.”
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
abandon abandonment defeat defeated

“We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we havent been able to create any distance bet...”
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
abandon discard distance escape

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
— George Eliot
agony introspection love parting

“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.”
— Dazai Osamu, Shayou
agony dazai-osamu peace sadness

“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, cant sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”
— Charles Bukowski
agony insanity pain