Agony Quotes
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Far as distress the soul can wound 'Tis pain in each degree; Bliss goes but to a certain bound, Beyond is agony. (Quote by - Frances Greville)
Acting is happy agony. (Quote by - Alec Guinness)
Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly. (Quote by - Bible)
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. (Quote by - Everett Dirksen)
I am sorry I had to come off. I had a sore hip - it was agony, ... I could not stand up so I had to come off. I would really have loved to have played on. I thought I was going to get a hat-trick but I enjoyed the other goals. (Quote by - Kenny Miller)
Organize, don't agonize. (Quote by - Nancy Pelosi)
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. (Quote by - John L. Lewis)
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. (Quote by - George Eliot)
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
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. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here? (Quote by - Jack Kevorkian)
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Listen, someone's screaming in agony - fortunately I speak it fluently (Quote by - Spike Milligan)
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. (Quote by - Louise Bogan)
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. (Quote by - Buddha)
Sisters - they share the agony and the exhilaration. As youngsters they may share popsicles, chewing gum, hair dryers and bedrooms. (Quote by - Roxanne Brown)
We're in constant agony that our son is gone. (Quote by - Penny Sweet)
Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The agony that we went through needed to be redeemed, and needed to be recompensed, and that did occur and we're very happy that this part is over. (Quote by - Frank Keating)
I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. (Quote by - Ella R. Bloor)
He was screaming in agony, and there was nothing we could do. (Quote by - Joseph Jackson)
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do. (Quote by - Leon Uris)
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. (Quote by - Jack Kevorkian)
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. (Quote by - John Mason Brown)
You could hear a pin drop in the crowd after that, because the only noise was James in agony clutching his shoulder. (Quote by - Barry Walmsley)
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. (Quote by - Mercedes McCambridge)
In some ways it was a relief to me, ... I know how guilty he had felt about what happened to Christopher but now he was going to a place where he felt no more pain. (Quote by - Pat Mitchell)
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. (Quote by - Lance Loud)
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony. (Quote by - Ben Hecht)
Run like hell and get the agony over with. (Quote by - Clarence DeMar)
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony. (Quote by - Cotton Mather)
Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. (Quote by - Harold Coffin)
Now we are watching the agony, we are watching the suffering, we can see the extreme destruction, ... That is extremely hard for people to grasp. It's beyond the day-to-day human experience of most people. It's beyond the coping mechanisms of daily life. (Quote by - Daniel Pearson)
Thank you, madam, the agony is abated. 'aged 4, having hot coffee spilt over his legs' (Quote by - Thomas Babington)
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist. (Quote by - John Updike)
I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt. (Quote by - Mariah Carey)
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Internet governance requires a multi-stakeholder approach. This is why we have suffered such agonies in our discussions on Internet governance, (Quote by - Yoshio Utsumi)
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. (Quote by - Clara Schumann)
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 is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid (Quote by - Alexander Maclaren)
