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Quotes About Agony

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
~ Homer
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
~ Blaise Pascal
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
~ Theodore Roethke
True poet's depression is a rigor mortis of agony. It's a full body inability to function. You don't want to leave your room.
~ Nicholson Baker
I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.
~ Nick Hornby
I will not accept boundaries; appearances cannot contain me; I choke! To bleed in this agony, and to live it profoundly, is the second duty. The mind is patient and adjusts itself, it likes to play; but the heart grows savage and will not condescend to play; it stifles and rushes to tear apart the nets of necessity.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved? The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following. The buzz.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved? The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I held the face of mister angel like a baby or a football in the crook of my arm and bashed him with my knuckles, bashed him until his teeth broke through his lips. Bashed him with my elbow after that until he fell through my arms into a heap at my feet. Until the skin was pounded thin across his cheekbones and turned black. I wanted to breathe smoke.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Stabbing, Mitzi could write a book about. For example, why some killers kept stabbing for so long. Only the first thrust is intended to inflict pain. The subsequent twenty, thirty, forty stab wounds are to resolve the suffering.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Emotionally she's a garage full of cats on fire.
~ Chuck Wendig
Not all satisfaction is sexual, and not all pain is suffering." Jaime
~ Claire Thompson
The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.
~ Clive Barker
I used to tell myself that," he said. "Day in, day out. Used to try and dream the agonies away. But you can't. Take it from me. You can't. They have to be endured.
~ Clive Barker
And whatever she suffered, he will suffer so much worse, so much worse. However loudly she cried, and begged him to stop, her murderer will cry out more loudly.
~ Clive Barker
I thought, This is where the day curdles.
~ Colson Whitehead
At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most, it is the mental agony caused by injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all. Strangely
~ Viktor E. Frankl
At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
It's not the physical pain which hurts the most, it is the mental agony caused by the injustice. The unreasonableness at all.
~ Viktor E. Frankl