Quotes About Agony

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

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

Conflict is not a solution; it is such a tribulation that creates revenge.

I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence.

Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

Cockroach: What is war? Man: How we lost the human race.

Dijkstra tries to raise his hands, but the wrench comes crashing down on his head. Crack. Crack. The droid is relentless. Crack. Dijkstra sees his own blood in his eyes. Crack. He falls to the floor. Crack. Crack. The droid is smashing his head in. Crack. Crack.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

For thou hast made a very fiend of me, and I have hell within.

Our past was slavery. We cannot recur to it with any sense of complacency or composure. The history of it is a record of stripes, a revelation of agony. It is written in characters of blood. Its breath is a sigh, its voice a groan, and we turn from it with a shudder. The duty of to-day is to meet the questions that confront us with intelligence and courage. —Frederick Douglass, "The Nation's Problem

Truth shines with brighter light and intenser heat at every moment, and a country torn and rent and bleeding implores relief from its distress and agony.

Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the in vain, insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure-—being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long.—

In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary - or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it - is tremendous!

Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn't like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture, when I was agony, naked, so ugly? I wished that picture wasn't taken.

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

The bastard even limped fast.

The fire bit into my legs like a rabid fox.

She felt bones in her cheek shatter with the impact.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.