Agony Quote by Rose Macaulay

“Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.” quote by Rose Macaulay — Download Open image

“Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.”

Rose Macaulay

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It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but…

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Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

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To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

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Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do…

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The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

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Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent…

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You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…

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I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them…

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Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

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All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?…

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Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the…

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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air…

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Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and…

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure…

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Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.

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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that…

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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

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Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the…

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The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward…

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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me…

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

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There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the…

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Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

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