Agony Quotes

456 Agony quotes by 365 unique authors

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. — Benjamin Disraeli
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. — George Eliot
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that… — Paul Feig
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on… — Kin Hubbard
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. — Jack Kevorkian
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it… — Jack Kevorkian
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant… — John L. Lewis
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. — John L. Lewis
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The… — Eric Liu
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born… — Bela Lugosi
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. — Mercedes McCambridge
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people… — J D Salinger
Acting is happy agony. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory… — Clara Schumann
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred… — Rob Sheffield
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured… — Jane Smiley
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or… — Lara Stone
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see,… — Lewis Thomas
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths,… — Lewis Thomas
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy… — Victoria Woodhull
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia Woolf
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths… — Charles Baudelaire

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