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Quotes About Agony

I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death. [...] 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.
~ W.B. Yeats
I have no mouth. And I must scream.
~ Harlan Ellison
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
~ Rupert Brooke
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
~ William Shakespeare
It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.
~ Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.
~ Ann Aguirre
Those who observe suffering are tempted to reject God; those who experience it often cannot give up on God, their solace and their agony." The presence of so many in church on a wintry night proved his point. "You can protest against the evil in the world only if you believe in a good God," Volf also said. "Otherwise the protest doesn't make sense.
~ Philip Yancey
I have not slept for nights. I have not eaten for days. I am a soul in torment. Tell me if you think that she loves me, if you think that she might love me. Tell me, for pity's sake.
~ Philippa Gregory
The flea chomped him hard on the left ear. Dor bashed at it—and boxed his ear. The pain was brief but intense.
~ Piers Anthony
As I kissed Agathon my soul swelled to my lips, where it hangs, pitiful, hoping to leap across.
~ Plato
Like someone trying to gargle boiling water.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Here we received the first blows: and it was so new and senseless that we felt no pain, neither in body nor in spirit. Only a profound amazement: how can one hit a man without anger?
~ Primo Levi
HAD TO KILL THEM I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE LUCY K I
~ R.L. Stine
You sound disappointed." Shane's voice came out faint and thready, and he put his head back against the cushions as he squeezed his eyes shut. "Damn, I hate this. I really do." I know," Oliver said. "Your blood reeks of it.
~ Rachel Caine
Don't worry...Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming.
~ Rachel Caine
What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.
~ Rafik Schami
I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow.
~ Dean Koontz
Justine refused to risk the pain that real closeness could bring. She'd been with her twin brother when he died, and the love she felt for him had turned into agony. Caught up in her own grief, Olivia had failed to recognize the devastating effect his death had had on her daughter.
~ Debbie Macomber
No one told me it would hurt this much.
~ Debbie Macomber
hurts?" "My whole arm hurts.
~ Debbie Macomber
Maryanne was much too furious to stand still. She paced her living room from one end to the other, her mind spitting and churning. A slow painful death was too good for Nolan Adams.
~ Debbie Macomber
I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized that I had better come to grips with what I believe. I have since moved from the agony of questions that I cannot answer to the reality of answers that I cannot escape . . . and it's a great relief!
~ Dennis Rainey
Involuntary euthanasia – This is the most controversial way of hastened death, yet it goes on widely and secretly everywhere. Only the Dutch admit to it. It is sometimes necessary when a patient is suddenly, unexpectedly dying in agony, cannot communicate their wishes, and so the attending doctor administers a merciful end.
~ Derek Humphry