Agonies Quotes

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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst… — Albert Camus
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of… — Aldous Huxley
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies… — Russell Baker
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour… — Rajneesh
...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old… — Karl Marx
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most… — Rudyard Kipling
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I… — Whitley Strieber
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. — William C. Bryant
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. — George Eliot
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses. — Paulo Coelho
Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this… — Rose Macaulay
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of… — Pope Gregory I
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget… — William Wordsworth
The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and… — Lucy Ellmann
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will… — Leo Tolstoy
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — George Cheyne

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