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Quotes About Agony

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men
~ Homer
We don't like trading agony for money
~ Charlie Munger
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
~ Jonathan Davis
I like a look of agony, because I know it's true
~ Emily Dickinson
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
~ William C. Bryant
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
~ Emily Dickinson
May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /????? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????
~ Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
how it is; your violent complainers
~ William Beckford
I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.
~ William Bronk
An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.
~ William Butler Yeats
At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit, Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of flame, Where blood-begotten spirits come And all complexities of fury leave, Dying into a dance, An agony of trance, An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.
~ William Butler Yeats
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
~ William Cowper
Forget the politics of your agony. Politicians are vermin in the soul. They sway with the winds and keep you angry, and anger becomes madness, and madness is the step before death.
~ William Diehl
Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.
~ William Graham Sumner
Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.
~ David Clement-Davies
Why did death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater than we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.
~ David Clement-Davies
Depuis quand était-ce ainsi? Il est difficile de dater le début d'un déclin d'amour. C'est progressif, insidieux, l'aisance surnoise des agonies.
~ David Foenkinos
De qué forma tan paulatina e insidiosa se van acomodando solapadamente las agonías.
~ David Foenkinos
No one would deny that all wars and battles are regrettable acts of human folly, causing unjustifiable agony and distress to combatants and non-combatants alike-but these considerations should not preclude their serious study, if only to avoid the mistakes of the past which make such tragedies inevitable.
~ David G. Chandler
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
~ J. D. Salinger
As God is my witness, he is broken in half!
~ Jim Ross
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
~ Rumi