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The human mind is not capable of comprehending or containing this world's agony.' Sidney Grice said, 'or we should all go mad. — M.R.C. Kasasian

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. — Harold Coffin

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

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

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day. — Mike Schmidt

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

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender. — Max Anders

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

Cities are fueled by the listless agony of workers providing services to other workers who barely acknowledge those services. — Helen Oyeyemi

Peace is not the absence of agony
But the presence of joy of harmony — Debasish Mridha

When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken. — Neal A. Maxwell

Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony. — D.R. Hedge

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. — Mary Shelley

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. — Martin Heidegger

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

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? — Susan Gordon Lydon

The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two. — Ben Midland

You call it hope - that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire. — Edgar Allan Poe

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her. — Scott Spencer

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

Guy thought of the Greek word agon, wasn't it at once an athletic contest and a style of suffering, an agony? — Edmund White

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

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true — Emily Dickinson

War.
Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. — David Gemmell

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order. — Bernard Crick

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. — Charlotte Bronte

...What is "love"? Is that... the true form of this agony? Is "love" the name you give to this pain? — Hotaru Odagiri

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony. — Edith Hamilton

Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living. — Catherine Cookson

... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done. — Louisa May Alcott

Hamlet: the agony of the bookworm forced to be a man of action. — Marty Rubin

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

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy. — Aberjhani

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony. — C.L. Cagan

She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. — H.P. Lovecraft

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

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony ... — Jane Austen

It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory.
But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness. — Steve Cauthen

The mind is beautiful and always in search of beauty.
In a moment it can run from joy to untold agony. — Debasish Mridha

In the end what kills is not agony (for agony at least asks something of the soul) but everyday life. — May Sarton

And thou art terrible
the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine. — Fitz-Greene Halleck

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy. — Ayelet Waldman

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children. — Andie MacDowell

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

Longinus was suddenly aware of her biting his neck, and he experienced the agony and the ecstasy of her dark kiss. — Alan Kinross

So like a bit of stone I lie
Under a broken tree.
I could recover if I shrieked
My heart's agony
To passing bird, but I am dumb. — W.B.Yeats

Experience is the byproduct of agony. — Joel T. McGrath

The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died. — Ellen G. White

Sometimes I long to forget ... It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. — Eva Hoffman

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. — Maya Angelou

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. — John L. Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every — L.M. Montgomery

Her head was too full of the memory, the too-recent agony of wanting to kiss him. Slumping — Marissa Meyer

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. — John Mason Brown

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

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin
only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations. — Frank Herbert

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

None of the agony it had caused her, the terror, or the heartbreak. But — Danielle Steel

The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment — Hermes Trismegistus

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed! — Margaret Junkin Preston

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death. — Robert E. Howard

Life was a trade-off between loneliness and inevitable peaks of joy or agony. — Karen Traviss

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. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The old man was in agony because of gas. He farted tremendously, and then he belched. — Kurt Vonnegut

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The sword fighting turned out to be quite a bit of fun, once the agony of muscle development produced actual muscles. — E.K. Johnston

I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it. — Donald Ray Pollock

an agony of humiliated indecision — Aldous Huxley

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life. — Rumi

That agony, that pain, that struggle, that rejection takes you to the place of grasping your dreams. — Euginia Herlihy

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

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