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Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life! -- Dorothea Dix
In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. -- Margaret Fuller
I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience. -- Lane Garrison
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children. -- Philip Kaufman
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking. -- Josh Radnor
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. -- Harlan Coben
Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999. -- Gary Krist
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering. -- Max Carver
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. -- David Eddings
I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing. -- Mary Lynn Rajskub
The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba. -- Robert Dallek
As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released. -- James Nesbitt
A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone -- Emily Dickinson
What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word. -- Matthew Henry
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! -- Dodie Smith
There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it -- Jessie Douglas Kerruish
Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. -- Gregory Neri
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. -- Neal A. Maxwell
You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining. -- Connie Brockway
Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life. -- Garrison Keillor
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity. -- Susan Sontag
I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle. -- Jacques Tati
Michael Winter's fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life"¦ harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn't miss for the world. -- Michael Crummey
I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand apart with an army: My mind is graven with ships. -- Hilda Doolittle
We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one. -- Ian Somerhalder
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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