Agony Quotes

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

Speech isn't for agony.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor.

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

Love was an agony beyond compare

Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn't there, the moments were agony.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning.