Agony Quotes

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.

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

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

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.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me.

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

Listen, someone's screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory. But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.

We may writhe in agony from pain Or laugh out loud when we find happiness As long as we're alive tomorrow will come we become stronger and keep on living We were born to live

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests Horus.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the depths of her own agony and desolation!