Agony Quote by William C. Bryant

“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

“Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other.”

— Gregory Maguire

“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go…

— Erich Maria Remarque

But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!)…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,”

— Edgar Allan Poe

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Night and day waging war, bitter enemies evermore. Fierce and loyal, the day is strong. Broken oaths, so much goes wrong. Magic speaks to…

— Stacie Simpson

“The dawn of beauty always comes after night.”

— Sorin Cerin

“Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery Can leave the mother, murdered at her door, To crawl in her…

— W. B. Yeats

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets…

— Horace

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

— Anonymous

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

— George Ade