Agony Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

— Sebastian Barry

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…

— Randy Alcorn

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

— Matthew of Edessa

“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been…

— William Styron

“The whole human earth was bleeding. Time, buildings, routes, rain, erase the constellation of the crime, the fact is, this small planet has been…

— Pablo Neruda

“Agony does not vanish with time. Time does not heal. Time may wear away the sharper pangs of torment and it may be that…

— Manning Norvil

I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to…

— David Brainerd

Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.

— Enoch

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

— Oscar Wilde

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

— William S. Burroughs

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work…

— Daniel Harvey Hill

“Hundreds of men crowded the yard, and not a one among them was whole. They covered the ground thick as maggots on a week…

— Edison McDaniels