“So love—aside from being pointless—was agony. Love was a soul-eating demon. Love was the most terrible feeling in the world.” — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“...What is "love"? Is that... the true form of this agony? Is "love" the name you give to this pain?” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror.… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day.… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
“Not many people understood the inherent pain of a career in heroics. Your body aches from the demands of day-to-day protection. Your… — Shirin Dubbin Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact.… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony. — Catullus Copy Share Image
Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“The Winter inside me was torment and agony—but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn’t feel.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now — Eyedea Copy Share Image
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Oh, what a agony and oh what a shame. To see my black brother goin? all down the drain. — Capleton Copy Share Image
Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it." — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
