Agony Quotes

456 Agony quotes by 365 unique authors

Agonies are one of my changes of garments. — Walt Whitman
Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity. — Neal A. Maxwell
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen
Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never… — Alison Croggon
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way. — Quentin Crisp
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the… — William Faulkner
Writing is a delicious agony. — Gwendolyn Brooks
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time… — Rabindranath Tagore
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I… — Charles Bukowski
we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years — Charles Bukowski
my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp… — E E Cummings
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless… — Oscar Wilde
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse… — Hermann Hesse
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that… — Yann Martel
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. — Unknown Author
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation… — Orson Scott Card
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I… — Frank Miller
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state… — Paulo Coelho
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender… — Unknown Author
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I… — John Flanagan
She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of… — Rosamunde Pilcher

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