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Quotes About Agony

Better to exist in agony than to vanish entirely.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He wanted to go. He hurt so much. He wanted it all to end, to go away. Everything. He just wanted it to stop.
~ Brandon Sanderson
An existence of agony is better than no existence at all
~ Brandon Sanderson
And so, untold millions screamed out in pain, and then were suddenly silenced. I hope you're happy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Fighting was not about glory, but about men lying on the ground screaming and thrashing, tangled in their own viscera
~ Brandon Sanderson
Dear agony, just let go of me, suffer slowly, is this the way it's gotta be?
~ Breaking Benjamin
these past months have been hard on me and I'm quite confused—physically, mentally and emotionally drained. I feel like a wounded animal stuck with spears, staggering around aimlessly. . . . I keep going on like there is nothing wrong. Sooner or later I will break. I want to break, to let it go in an agonizing wail—but I just can't seem to let it out.
~ Bret Hart
Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.
~ Henry Miller
Everything American will disappear one day. More completely than that which was Greek, or Roman, or Egyptian. This is one of the ideas which pushed me outside the warm, comfortable bloodstream, where buffalos all, we once grazed in peace. An idea which has caused me infinite sorrow. For not to belong to something enduring is the last agony.
~ Henry Miller
nameless miseries of the numberless mortals
~ Herman Melville
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
~ Jackie Chan
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Peace is not the absence of agonyBut the presence of joy of harmony
~ Debasish Mridha
Let my heart feel the joy, see the beauty, all around me.Still it may be in pure agony.
~ Debasish Mridha
Oh thee! Lets ignite the fire of love in my heart to purify me. Let my heart feel the joy, see the beauty, all around me.Still it may be in pure agony.
~ Debasish Mridha
I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.
~ John Colton
The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.
~ Stephen Richards
Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.
~ Stephen Richards
But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. 'I have had,' the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again, and down once more, 'enough' - with a sob the crushed, broken body was yanked from the ground again - 'of- 'your- justice!
~ Steven Erikson
You get a rib injury and it hurts to breathe. If you sneeze, you think you're gonna die.
~ Joe Thornton
We may writhe in agony from pain Or laugh out loud when we find happiness As long as we're alive tomorrow will come we become stronger and keep on living We were born to live
~ Miho Obana
I was feeling as though my eyeballs had been scooped out, roughly polished with a sanding wheel, and then shoved back more or less into their right places. My head was full of gray cheese instead of brains.
~ Mike Carey
But his anxiety communicated itself to room 120, where the patient awakened and began to look for his head, and to room 118, where the unknown Master wrung his hands in agony, looking at the moon and recalling the bitter autumn night, the last of his life, the streak of light under the basement door, and the uncurled strands of hair. From room 118 the restlessness flew across the balcony to Ivan, and he awakened and began to cry. (181)
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
~ Milan Kundera