Quotes of: Agonize Keyword

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'

John Burdett

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention ...

Eric S. Raymond

I've never been one who agonizes over my work.

Ewan McGregor

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

Spike Milligan

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Confucius

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Elbert Hubbard

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

Joe Manchin

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.

Uprising

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

Caroline B. Cooney

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

Karen Horney

The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.

Marilena Mexi

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Clint Eastwood

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

Life

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Countee Cullen

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Agnes de Mille

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

The Iliad

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Zen in the Art of Writing