Quotes of: Agony Keyword

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.

Germaine Greer

The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.

Gregory the Great

Private: [screaming in agony] THEY'RE KILLING US! AND WE DON'T HAVE A FUCKIN' CHANCE AND THAT'S NOT FAIR!

Saving Private Ryan

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Dark Moon

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

Breakfast of Champions

As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

Brief Lives

I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony

Blood Promise

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

The Jungle

Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.

No More Parades

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Love's Labour's Lost

He screamed in agony as large black wings erupted from his back - each had four large talons on it.

Longinus the Vampire: Redemption

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

The Scarlet Letter

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Persuasion

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

The Young Visiters

Of all my seeking this is all my gain: No agony of any mortal brain Shall wrest the secret of the life of man; The Search has taught me that the Search is vain.

Omar Khayyam

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

Scott Stossel

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

Lesley Manville

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Leo Tolstoy