Agony Quotes · Page 9

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

— Gene Weingarten

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

— Jack Kevorkian

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

— Blaise Pascal

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

— Aeschylus

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

— Catullus

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

— Nalini Singh

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

“Worst kind of motivation is one where people comfort you by telling about other people who have lost more than you, had…

— Crestless Wave

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

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave…

— Anonymous

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

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror.…

— Bela Lugosi

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,…

— Albert Camus

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day.…

— Reinhold Messner

From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist…

— William Blum

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

“… It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made…

— Shalom Auslander

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

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

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…

— Aldous Huxley

Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,…

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Jim Butcher

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Eyedea

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

— Hotaru Odagiri

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

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Emily Dickinson

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Geoff Dyer

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

— Thomas Sowell

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

— Louise Bogan

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

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

There is no greater agony than carrying the burden of an untold story.

— Kanika Dhillon

“The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

— Mahatma Gandhi