Agony Quotes

456 Agony quotes by 365 unique authors

Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue. — Arthur Penn
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his… — Ralph Ellison
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I… — Susan Sontag
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters… — Isadora Duncan
She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more than himself; that another's suffering could… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will… — Charles Spurgeon
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more,… — John Keats
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a… — Sammy Cahn
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
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We… — Albert Einstein
There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened… — Unknown Author
I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if… — William J. Clinton
Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee fantasizing about running… — Louise Brealey
The Savior's suffering in Gethsemane and His agony on the cross redeem us from sin by satisfying the demands that justice has upon us. He… — D. Todd Christofferson
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche.… — Gertrud von Le Fort
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch… — Marsha M. Linehan
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,… — Henry Grady Weaver
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If… — Robin Morgan
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who… — Harry S. Truman
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
We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight… — Edward Abbey
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of… — Archibald MacLeish
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I… — Petrarch
As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into… — Nate Saint

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