Agony Quote by Charles Spurgeon

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be…

— Hermann Hesse

Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the…

— A. C. Bradley

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and…

— James E. Faust

“Our sorrows, like the passing keels of the vessels upon the sea, leave a silver line of holy light behind them "afterwards." It is…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For…

— Anonymous

“Every moment of enjoyment Brings to some one else a sorrow, But your sorrow gladdens no one, For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs.”

— August Strindberg

“But for us the tragedy was but just beginning; as in the case of other wounds the pain was drugged at the moment, and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who…

— Victor Hugo