Agony Quotes

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

I see before me the gladiator lie.

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.