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Quotes About Agony

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
Pain lanced through Sienna McCade's body, white hot and relentless.
~ Jennifer Colgan
It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
~ Jennifer Egan
It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
~ Jennifer Egan
I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes-to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation, before any one else beheld it. They would not shut; they seemed to sneer at my attempts, and his parted lips and sharp, white teeth sneered too!
~ Emily Bronte
But the hearts that once adored me Have long forgot their vow And the friends that mustered round me Have all forsaken now 'Twas in a dream revealed to me But not a dreamt of sleep A dream of watchful agony Of grief that would not weep Now do not harshly turn away
~ Emily Bronte
Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?
~ Emily Bronte
Oh! dreadful is the check—intense the agony— When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
~ Emily Bronte
If God would but give me strength to strangle him in my last agony, I'd go to hell with joy
~ Emily Bronte
Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals; My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels: Its wings are almost free--its home, its harbour found, Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound, Oh I dreadful is the check--intense the agony-- When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
~ Emily Bronte
Je suis sans pitié ! Je suis sans pitié ! Plus les vers se tordent, plus grande est mon envie de leur écraser les entrailles ! C'est comme une rage de dent morale, et je broie avec d'autant plus d'énergie que la douleur est plus vive.
~ Emily Bronte
Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes...
~ Emily Bronte
I like a look of agony, because I know it's true
~ Emily Dickinson
Safe Despair it is that raves— Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
~ Emily Dickinson
I like a look of Agony, Because I know it's true— Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate a Throe— The Eyes glaze once—and that is Death— Impossible to feign The Beads upon the Forehead By homely Anguish strung.
~ Emily Dickinson
Brewed from decades of agony! To think just how the fire will burn, Just how long-cheated eyes will turn
~ Emily Dickinson
I felt a funeral in my brain
~ Emily Dickinson
Hay algo que me gusta en la agonía, y es que sé que es verdad; los hombres no simulan convulsiones, no imitan el dolor. Unos ojos se vidrian, y es la muerte. Imposible de fingir las gotas de sudor sobre la frente que la inhábil angustia va ensartando.
~ Emily Dickinson
I like a look of agony, Because I know it 's true;
~ Emily Dickinson
He felt a stab of agony as the sharp blade plunged into his chest, and a sickening thud as he was thrown back through the doorway, but after that he felt no pain.
~ Emily Rodda
It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?
~ Eoin Colfer
The most dangerous part of lending books lies in the returning. At such times, friendships hang by a thread. I look for agony, ecstasy, for tears, transfiguration, trembling hands, a broken voice - but what the borrower usually says is, "I enjoyed it." I enjoyed it - as if that were what books were for.
~ Anatole Broyard
Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.
~ Andre Agassi
My flesh began to singe as if I were a scrap of meat newly thrown onto the barbecue, and then i could hear the bubbling of my skin as the flames kissed it.
~ Andrew Davidson