Poetess99's favorites, chosen by checkmate

  1. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
        Maya Angelou   Best?
  2. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
        Henri Nouwen   Best?
  3. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  4. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  5. When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  6. What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  7. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  8. The tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
        Albert Schweitzer   Best?
  9. Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
        Halle Berry   Best?
  10. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  11. There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.
        Robert Salvatore   Best?
  12. As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.
        John Candy   Best?
  13. That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
        Sojourner Truth   Best?
  14. The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, vast and reasoned derangement of the senses - every form of love, of suffering, of madness.
        Arthur Rimbaud   Best?
  15. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
        William Cowper   Best?

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