Agony Quotes

456 Agony quotes by 365 unique authors

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before… — Iain Banks
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow,… — John Steinbeck
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but… — Alexandre Dumas
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love was an agony beyond compare — Nalini Singh
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace. — Aberjhani
Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure. — Euripides
I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony. — Emile M. Cioran
Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that… — David Clement-Davies
Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to… — Richelle Mead
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe
For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a… — Stephenie Meyer
I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And… — Sylvia Plath
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,… — C.S. Lewis
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence… — William James
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind… — Charles Stross
The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to… — Suzanne Collins
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. — Kenzaburo Oe
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,… — Anatole France
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym… — Lionel Shriver
Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an… — Henry Miller
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care… — Christopher Paolini
It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think? — Eoin Colfer

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