Quotes About Agony
The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out.
~ Efraim Karsh
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In an instant, the pup's trustful friendliness was gone. The man had come on the Place, at dead of night, and had struck him. That must be paid for! Never would the pup forget,—his agonizing lesson that night intruders are not to be trusted or even to be tolerated. Within a single second, he had graduated from a little friend of all the world, into a vigilant watchdog.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
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Then she would faint once more and come to once more, only to relive new torments. My heart cannot bear to describe her ordeal any longer: An overwhelming sorrow makes me skip to the end of that journey, which lasted for more than four hours, after which we will still have some more agonizing hours to endure. Let us go now to the castle where the unhappy girl was being taken.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
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but now it all floods back—the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her
~ Alex Flinn
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
~ Harold Feinstein
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
~ Anne Rice
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Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me.
~ Rose George
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The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.
~ Richard Bachman
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Within Western art the dead white body has often been a sight of veneration, an object of beauty. While Christ on the cross may often be an image of agony, it is also one of beauty, with the suffering itself part of the transcendent beauty. In
~ Richard Dyer
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The agony of being earthbound can be indescribable. I'm sure the memory still haunts.
~ Richard Matheson
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Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue.
~ Richard Preston
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The monkeys showed no facial expression, not even pain or agony. The connective tissue under the skin had been destroyed by the virus, causing a subtle distortion of the face. Another reason for the strange faces was that the parts of the brain that control facial expression had also been destroyed.
~ Richard Preston
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Pain is an interesting thing. You think you have reached your limit and you can't possibly feel more tortured. Then you discover there is still another level of agony. And another level after that.
~ Rick Riordan
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Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would've discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn't have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens.
~ Rick Riordan
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YEAH, I KNOW. You guys are going to read about how I died in agony, and you're going be like, "Wow! That sounds cool, Magnus! Can I die in agony too?" No. Just no. Don't go jumping off any rooftops. Don't run into the highway or set yourself on fire. It doesn't work that way. You will not end up where I ended up.
~ Rick Riordan
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Uuugggggghhhhh...
~ Rick Riordan
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The second encirclement would be a disaster, and it would win me commendation and international fame. It would leave my brain full—as it is now, here on the Toloa's deck—of visions of pleading faces and ruined bodies, of phantom agonies that scour the parts of my consciousness where I once held hope for the future, like the pains that plague a maimed man where a limb's been cut away.
~ Kathleen Rooney
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Profound melancholia is a day-in, day-out, night-in, night-out, almost arterial level of agony.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
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He'd want privacy for his Change and that wasn't vanity. I'm curious about many things, but witnessing the human-to-wolf transformation isn't one of them. I'm going to try picking up visions, I said. So try to keep the screams of agony to a minimum, okay? A muttered epithet. I grinned and walked to the sofa.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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Power came the way a child came -- with agony.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.
~ Samuel Logan Brengle
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Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
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Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
~ Timothy Keller
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
~ William Penn
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