I am half agony, half hope.

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is a hope.”

— Michael Nava

“Whether your glass is half full or half empty, hope can fill it up.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Louise Bay

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

— Persuasion by Jane Austen

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

— Merle Shain

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

— Harold Brodkey

“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing…

— Dean Koontz

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

— John Keble

As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us…

— Alexander MacLaren