Agony Quotes

Writing is agony. I hate it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

— Philip Sidney

Acting is happy agony.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Organize, don't agonize.”

— Nancy Pelosi

Living in agony.

— Bill Kaulitz

We still wonder...

— Leslie

Speech isn't for agony.

— Hortense Calisher

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

— Andrew Lincoln

“Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“The worst of pains is the agony of conscience.”

— Ramona Matta

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

— Walt Whitman

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I steal my bliss from your agony.”

— Julie Berry

“I like a look of agony, because I know it's true”

— Emily Dickinson

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

— Anonymous

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

— Emily Dickinson

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

— C. S. Lewis

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“...What is "love"? Is that... the true form of this agony? Is "love" the name you give to this pain?”

— Hotaru Odagiri

Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

— Eyedea

“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Winter inside me was torment and agony—but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn’t feel.”

— Jim Butcher

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The welkin is blue yet in agony, The air and the water has made a pair, As the love was unfaithful and…

— J. Sarraf

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony…

— Rebecca West

Can we accept the unexplained, the loss, The crushing agony, and hold us still. And nowhere is that clearer vision given Which…

— Amy Carmichael

I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he…

— Richelle Mead

“There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened,…

— Douglas Kennedy

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of…

— M. Scott Peck

“Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more the are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony--is inexhaustible.”

— Grant Morrison

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not…

— Billy Sunday

Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all…

— Henri Nouwen

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to…

— Timothy Keller

I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were…

— David Brainerd

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,…

— Scott Turow

The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no…

— David Ebershoff

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we…

— Michael Eric Dyson

At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then…

— Robert E. Howard