Agony Quotes - page 2

I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on. (Donald Barthelme)
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. View quote
Jane Austen
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.... View quote
William Faulkner
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 two hundred limping exhausted men come out of line-the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. View quote
John Keble
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. View quote
Gerald Ford
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 Horus. View quote
Rick Riordan
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. (Bela Lugosi)
Excruciating agony makes me cranky. View quote
Brandon Mull
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours. View quote
Lionel Shriver
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men. View quote
Lisa See
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. View quote
Harold Coffin
What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back. View quote
Ann Brashares
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment. View quote
Ayi Kwei Armah
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement. View quote
Marsha M. Linehan
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness...but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. View quote
David S. Rose
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. (Harold Brodkey)
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. View quote
Lance Loud
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. View quote
Louise Bogan
Placing "amicable" and "separation" together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three. View quote
Mariella Frostrup
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge