Agony Quotes

456 Agony quotes by 365 unique authors

Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to… — Robert Liparulo
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could… — Carl Rogers
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in… — Mary Karr
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground… — Henri Nouwen
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an… — E E Cummings
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex… — Mariella Frostrup
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value.… — Joyce Meyer
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. — John Mason Brown
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy. — Daisaku Ikeda
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. — Lance Loud
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode. — Kate Braverman
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false… — Carlos Bulosan
Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the… — Randy Alcorn
In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of… — John Edensor Littlewood
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,… — Clifford Geertz
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out… — Harold Brodkey
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing… — Leon Uris
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in… — George V. Higgins
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating.… — Unknown Author
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in… — Alfred North Whitehead
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget… — William Wordsworth
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,… — George Eliot
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is… — Margaret Junkin Preston
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a… — Louis Agassiz
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without… — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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