Agony Quotes
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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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.
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We do have choice, but not without some agony.
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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.
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The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.
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I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.
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Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
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Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
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And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.
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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.
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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.
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It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
