Agony Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead…

— Anonymous

“The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world…

— Steve Goodier

The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind,…

— Adam Smith

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

— Amy Grant

“When any distress or terror surprises us in the midst of our amusements, it naturally makes a deeper impression than at other times, either…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”

— Barry B. Powell

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives…

— Ernest Becker

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

— Blaise Pascal

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent…

— Margery Allingham

“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and…

— George Eliot

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It…

— Jacques Charles

Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw…

— Dan Eldon