Agony Quotes

456 Agony quotes by 365 unique authors

Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!"… — Lewis Carroll
I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it. — Donald Ray Pollock
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak… — Osamu Dazai
My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture. — James Patterson
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for… — Jane Austen
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.… — Adam Smith
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever… — Roger Zelazny
Writing a novel is agony. — George Orwell
Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare. — Nalini Singh
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be… — Victor Hugo
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the… — Pat Conroy
What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the… — Orhan Pamuk
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand. — June Jordan
Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create — Michael Jackson
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. — Elizabeth Kostova
When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In… — Ava Gardner
I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that… — Maggie Stiefvater
i will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already. — Louise Rennison
I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make… — Elizabeth Gaskell
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit… — Charles Bukowski
What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law… — Ann Brashares
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk… — Pat Conroy
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns… — Neil Gaiman
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing… — Unknown Author
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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