Quotes of: Agony Keyword

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

The Agony and the Ecstasy

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Jeffrey Archer

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?

The Agony and the Ecstasy

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a ...

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Writing a novel is agony.

George Orwell

… It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made the sudden absence of it all so agonizing… Not the agony of what was, but the agony of what was no longer; this was the source of all life�...

Hope: A Tragedy

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles...

Peter Camenzind

Experience is the byproduct of agony.

Joel T. McGrath

Writing is agony. I hate it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Writing is a delicious agony.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must...

Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences...

Tillie Olsen

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot