Agony Quote by Ylime Aicrag

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Evil demons dwelling in underworlds, Gods sitting on-high, angels battling and protecting. We have become so wrapped up in these stories, and in the…

— L.M. Browning

“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so defeated by…

— Dante Alighieri

This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward…

— Dante Alighieri

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever…

— Aeschylus

“Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me weep: tongues…

— Dante Alighieri

It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God…

— Richard Baxter

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why…

— Thomas Gray

“You bitches, sows, screech-owls, night owls, she-wolves, blood suckers, [who] cry “Give, give! without ceasing” (Prov. 30:15–16). Come now, hear me, harlots, prostitutes, with…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and…

— Sarada Devi

People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.

— Anonymous

God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment,…

— Thomas Boston