Quotes About Agony

Charm ache with air and agony with words.

They'll give him death by inches.

This music mads me: let it sound no more.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

War is cruelty. You can't refine it.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

War is hell, and I mean to make it so.

Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.

Because it's the pain that brings me pleasure It's that torment that I treasure It's the suffering that keeps me alive It's in this misery that I thrive

Our agony was the government's triumph.

David Foster Wallace believed that 'high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.' They are also, it is sad to say, an arena for the darker aspects of human nature.

The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.

David has won everything he coveted and lost everything he cared for. This snapshot of agony sums up for generations the price of power, the intersection of family and public life, the way in which we injure ourselves and are then staggered by the pain.

and - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds.

My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.

The agony of defeat is always greater than the pain of preparing for victory.

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.

In the past it was known as a 'massive stroke' and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony. You survive, but you survive with what is so aptly known as 'locked-in syndrome'.

His face was pure pain.

Physical pain always mimes death and the infliction of physical pain is always a mock execution.

So many crazed men, so many cries, so much bestial brutality.

Et autour d'eux, tant d'amis, tant de frères, tant de camarades, des visages que j'avais connus dans mon enfance et d'autres que j'avais vu vivre et agoniser, espérer et blasphémer, à Buchenwald et à Auschwitz.

Y por primera vez en mi vida, la salida fue la de la fe . Esta fe llegaba del saber profundo de que yo disponía de la suficiente fuerza y del coraje como para poder sufrir sola esta agonía y la certeza de que nunca se nos da más de lo que podemos aguantar. De pronto comprendí que sólo tenía que cesar en mi lucha, transformar mi resistencia en sumisión y decir sencillamente si.