Agony Quote by sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Pleasure, scarcely in one instance, is ever able to reach ecstasy and rapture; and in no one instance can it continue for any time…

— David Hume

“What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the man who…

— Courtney Giardina

I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained…

— Amy Lowell

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

— Aberjhani

It is difficult to not let the circumstances define you when everyone feels they know your personal struggles and agony.

— Camille Grammer

The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert…

— Charles Robert Maturin

Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests…

— Rick Riordan

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

— Euripides

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…

— Kane

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

— Merle Shain

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

— Harold Brodkey

“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing…

— Dean Koontz

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

— John Keble

As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us…

— Alexander MacLaren