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Quotes About Agony

As soon as the adult serial killer's fragile ego and self-esteem are threatened by any form of rejection or pain, the original childhood agony is triggered and he feels the irresistible urge to act out this powerful fantasy, which is the only way
~ Unknown
Despair is anger with no place to go.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
bliss, mean, wretched, and mingled with wormwood
~ Mika Waltari
The singer was lifted up and illuminated with gratitude, not for any one thing, but for the whole of his life, even for the agony. Even in Latin you could tell he was thanking God for the agony in particular, for the way it allowed him to cleave so tightly to the world.
~ Miranda July
Alone on the floor of his elevator car, oblivious to everything beyond the walls of his box, Chris Young occasionally heard loud cries amid sirens and fire alarms. Nothing sounded like human agony, only some kind of vague emergency unfolding nearby. He knew nothing of planes or fires or people falling and jumping to their deaths.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
There are times when everything on earth spits out the stench of human blood
~ Mo Yan
Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.
~ Nalini Singh
There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies." (Raphael)
~ Nalini Singh
Love was an agony beyond compare
~ Nalini Singh
Fragments swam in his blood, weaving their way through his entire system. A system devoid of wildfire. Devoid too of the golden lightning. Uncaring of the loss and of the agony in his chest, he opened his eyes . . . and looked into those of liquid silver.
~ Nalini Singh
Rest, heal. I'll come by again soon." Maybe she was scared at what was being asked of her, but if Izak could smile through his agony, she'd damn well find the guts to be what he needed her to be.
~ Nalini Singh
I want to mutilate and torture every person on the planet who in any way supported Santano or Tatiana, break them until they beg and crawl. Then I want to tell them it'll never end.
~ Nalini Singh
He watched her with unyielding focus even as shards of white-hot agony thrust into his brain. Ethan had chosen.
~ Nalini Singh
In order to grieve—I needed to "unlearn" the way I learned to ignore my agony.
~ Unknown
Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.
~ Unknown
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.
~ Unknown
Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.
~ Unknown
Promises were useless in the face of torture.
~ Nicola Griffith
The green grass of Gwynedd was a better way to end than blind agony in a dark, close room.
~ Nicola Griffith
I must have dislocated my pelvis!" -Rurouni
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Think what it must be like for a victim about to die under torture. Think how the torture must be multiplied in his flesh and soul with the splendour that surrounds him! And how his agony must become more atrocious, more desperately atrocious, dearest heart!" "I was thinking about love," I replied reproachfully. "And you continuously talk about torture!" "Why not - since it's the same thing!
~ Octave Mirbeau