Agony Quotes
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I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
Mercedes McCambridge
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I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.
Albert Einstein
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After a short period of agony, I took a great leap forward from copying nature, in a more or less impressionist style, to feeling the content of things.
Gabriele Munter
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
C. S. Lewis
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
Amy Lowell
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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.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.
C. S. Lewis
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Jane Austen
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Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
Laura Z. Hobson
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We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Frank Keating
