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A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is… — Erich Maria Remarque
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild. — David Gemmell
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a… — Eleanor Robson Belmont
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted… — Frederic Farrar
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone… — Charles Darwin
From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against… — William Blum
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the… — Frederick Lenz
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics… — James Whistler
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace. — William C. Bryant
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's… — John Updike
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But… — Julie Burchill
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony. — Lyndon B. Johnson
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — Emily Dickinson
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. — Gerald R. Ford
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's… — Steve Jobs
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. — Emily Dickinson
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky.… — Rose Wilder Lane
We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have… — Will Tuttle
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My… — Bernard of Clairvaux
The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again. — Ruben Papian
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine. — Germaine Greer

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