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Aaron would not come out
aaron entered into agony. — William Goldman

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution. — Henrik Ibsen

Love was an agony beyond compare — Nalini Singh

Dear agony,
just let go of me,
suffer slowly,
is this the way it's gotta be? — Breaking Benjamin

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create ... Just create — Michael Jackson

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance. — Helen M. Luke

There's wall of agony between dreams and reality. — Toba Beta

Acting is happy agony. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Grief. What a horrid thing it is, yet I hold tightly to it. The agony I feel is how I remember he was here, that he existed. — B.N. Toler

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. — John Aubrey

Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony. — Ian Tregillis

The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe

The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor. — David Gest

A part of me knew ... from the moment I saw her;
her death would have been one wound too many that day. — Dean Koontz

Organize, don't agonize. — Nancy Pelosi

In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery. — Rabih Alameddine

That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events. — William Faulkner

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. — Maya Angelou

For many men the moment of violent connection may be the only intimacy, the only attainable closeness, the only space where the agony is released. — Bell Hooks

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus

There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end. — Paula Hawkins

History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. — Elizabeth Kostova

She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was agony — Melissa De La Cruz

It's only now that I realize that there are degrees of agony. That pain can range from devastating to soul-shattering. — Anna Zaires

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony — Munia Khan

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony. — Isadora Duncan

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking. — Fred W. Friendly

I will not always be happy, but perhaps, if I'm lucky, I will be spared the agony of adding pain to the world. — Meg Rosoff

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic. — Robert Aris Willmott

Arik didn't know how long he'd been in hell. Time was one never-ending, no-lube f&*k when you were in the dark and in agony. — Larissa Ione

Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind — Munia Khan

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony. — Margaret Feinberg

The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. — Timothy Keller

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world. — Edith Hamilton

Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare. — Nalini Singh

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode. — Kate Braverman

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men. — Lisa See

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare

Because the least painful part of an affair is the tumble and tangle of body parts. The agony is in the guts. In the reasons behind it. — Jessica Hawkins

The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love — Hilary Stanton Zunin

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. — Jack Kevorkian

A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair. — Kilroy J. Oldster

He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm — Mitch Albom

This was never my shit. This was just a life of agony for me in a place of insanity. — Sarah Ann Walker

But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. — Rupert Brooke

His agony is the basis of the simplicity of our salvation. — Oswald Chambers

The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy. — Victoria Clayton

It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved. — J.S.B. Morse

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing. — Laura Z. Hobson

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

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 R. Ford

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat. — Jodi Picoult

Sometimes salvation is found in agony. — Alexandre Dumas

And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in those mountains for a long long time ... — Farrah Naseem

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. — Alexandre Dumas

Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

inch of her body was in agony. She felt like she had been flayed, and she looked like she had been — Jarred Martin

My wails of sorrow
are tormenting my soul — Jalaluddin Rumi

...the sense of my utter loneliness had been agony... — H.G.Wells

The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs. — Walter Scott

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture. — James Patterson

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

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war. — Menachem Begin

We do have choice, but not without some agony. — Josephine Hart

He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There is a vast gulf between perfection and near perfection, and that gulf is filled with agony. — Larry Correia

Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Excruciating agony makes me cranky. — Brandon Mull

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony. — Catullus

there is no such thing as patient wisdom to be found in the sharp agony of the teachers. — Morrissey

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others? — Robin Hobb

Agony is not something that happens to you.
To agonize is a choice. — Alan Cohen

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. — Louise Rennison

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. — William Goldman

And I have such a cold in the head - I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you? — L.M. Montgomery

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience. — Joel T. McGrath

When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just ripped his heart out — Lauren Kate

Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/
I was me but now he's gone/ — Metallica

In seven days, God created the world. And in seven seconds, I shattered mine. — Breaking Benjamin

It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads. — Zadie Smith

The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

Life... a labyrinth... an agony... an ecstasy
- Labyrinths — Hristo Krstevski

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between. — Francois Truffaut

I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When the agony of all the people is heard, nothing will be done. — Charles Bukowski

Life is Beauty, Mystery, Sweetness and Terror. Get married soon as possible so when you get divorced, you're not too old.
Miss Agony — W.H. Manville

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure. — Euripides

She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer. — Anna Godbersen

Run like hell and get the agony over with. — Clarence De Mar

Their touch triggered an electric spasm of agony. He felt the gushing warmth of blood on his fingers. [Charles Meredith] — Stephen Lloyd Jones

What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am half agony, half hope. — Jane Austen

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball. — Carlton Fisk

There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real. — R.A. Nelson

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt — Mariah Carey