Agony Quote by Philip Sidney

“As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.”

— Ayelet Waldman

I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing.…

— Sylvia Plath

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we should require…

— Emil Cioran

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

— Walt Whitman

“If these were death agonies, they were fake ones, Costis thought, and was sure of it when they reached the shallow stair at the…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,…

— Walt Whitman

“My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from…

— Emil M. Cioran

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels...I myself become the wounded person.”

— Alan Russell

See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and…

— Cormac McCarthy

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and…

— Philip Sidney

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle