Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
There is no greater agony than carrying the burden of an untold story. — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
“Dear agony, just let go of me, suffer slowly, is this the way it's gotta be?” — Breaking Benjamin Copy Share Image
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“To Bear the uncertain pain of today is better to bear the agony of the uncertain future".” — Sumit Keshan Copy Share Image
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Worst kind of motivation is one where people comfort you by telling about other people who have lost more than you, had… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Eternal struggle with agony Bringing me tears of sadness I shall never love again As I fill my heart with madness... I… — KM II Copy Share Image
In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. It was as if some folks got dunked in plastic,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“… It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and… — Kane Copy Share Image
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
“Arik didn’t know how long he’d been in hell. Time was one never-ending, no-lube f&*k when you were in the dark and… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and… — Mary Pauline Lowry Copy Share Image
“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.” — Rebecca Ross Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the… — Courtney Giardina Copy Share Image
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
We could make this work, you know." "I will knee you in the groin." "I could give you a night you will… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar… — George Eliot Copy Share Image