Quotes About Agony

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

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!

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.

It was a constant agony, consuming and debilitating as a toothache.

Ah, no wonder the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered years of agony all for her, for such a woman. Beauty, terrible beauty! —The Iliad, Homer, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES

unspeakable horrors loom all around me, scenes not of physical violence but of psychic mutilation. Mental agony and orgasm. Terror and hysterical laughter.

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

In the center of that open space, a bony woman in a threadbare garment was hunched over a dead plant. Sword of Divine Fire's reaction was succinct: Fuck! The woman cringed as if he'd hit her with a bullwhip. Then: What has happened to our potato?

Your horse whickers because he likes your manner," Feronantus said. "He is coming to trust you. Horses are naive that way. Of all the savagery of war, I regret the disappointment and agony of the horses most of all.

Poor devil! None of us can have the remotest idea of the agony it is to be despised and rejected of men. A cancer in the soul and then madness. The feeling of there being a curtain, more invisible than gauze, stronger than iron, between one's self and one's fellow man. To cry out of the abyss and to know that there will be no answer, that one is buried alive.

No, I mumble. I try to shake my head but can't, the agony making it impossible. I want to stay awake. I want to be with you. Do not worry. I will be here when you wake. But you were gone before. I was not gone. I was here and I will always be here. How can you be so sure? She kissed me again before answering. Because, she says, her voice tender, I am always with you, Ira.

I just hate playing bad. I hate not playing the way I'm comfortable playing at. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

It took seven hours for Azen to die.

bloodied, broken corpse

You bitch! You killed me! You suck!

When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.