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Quotes About Agony

Agony is not something that happens to you. To agonize is a choice.
~ Alan Cohen
And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he'll be pounding and... will there be blood? I like to imagine so. Yes, I rather think there will be blood. Lots of blood. Blood in extraordinary quantities.
~ Alan Moore
If you hear any screaming," he said "that'll be me.
~ Derek Landy
It hurts," she said.
~ Derek Landy
This morning, at the custodial services meeting with doctor brown, where she informed the staff of Rusty's death, he'd felt sick. Not the usual, slow burning nausea of his life, but a deep, agonizing pain. As if everything were so twisted up inside and out, that there was no escape.
~ Diana Peterfreund
The migraine is a beast from Hell, a bone-crushing, brain-twisting, heart-rending, apocalyptic scourge—an insult to all that's holy.
~ Diane Stafford
French winegrowers faced the agonizing prospect of trying to get their harvest in before vineyards were turned into battlefields.
~ Don Kladstrup
my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.
~ Donald Antrim
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...
~ Donald Barthelme
Death of a part is agony - from "The Red Branch
~ Donald Hall
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.
~ Rose Macaulay
Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal again, my only friend is my misery. Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me.
~ Tupac Shakur
I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night.
~ Jenny Han
I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun,
~ Jenny Han
Everything about my mother was a source of prepubescent agony. On the low end of the Mortification Scale there was her name: Floncey.
~ Jerry Stahl
When the Universe folds into a sigh, Withdrawing from all agony and grief, Time will cease its flowing, and with relief The cosmic Breath will freeze and Time will die. Evil souls that once were us arise To devour the corpse, like clouds of flies.
~ Jessica Amanda Salmonson
He made writing look easy and critics hate that. They like evidence of a struggle, of creative agony, wringing the masterpiece out of one's guts. After all, most critics think of themselves as writers, or had attempted to become writers. This leads to the bizarre situation in which failed writers pass judgment on writers who actually write for a living.
~ Jessica Zafra
The cries continued. It is not men, they could not cry so terribly. Wounded horses, says Kat. It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The cries continued, it is not men, they could not cry so terribly. 'Wounded horses', says Kat. It is is unendurable, it is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror and groaning.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. That
~ Erik Larson
He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke.
~ Erik Larson
Mass-Observation diarist Olivia Cockett also found it repellent. "It shouldn't be allowed," she insisted. "It makes play and sport of agonies, not to help people bear them, but to pander to the basest, crudest, most-to-be-wiped-out feelings of cruel violence.
~ Erik Larson
Half a million dead wops And he got a kick out of it The son of a bitch.
~ Ernest Hemingway