Agonizing Quotes - Page 4

• What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue...
  And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Eye, Heart, Company We Keep

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• In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home. I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Moving, Home, Black And White

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.72, Penguin

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• I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

  Alan Bradley

  Interesting, Brain, Enemy

  Alan Bradley (2010). “The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.316, Dell

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• You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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• We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Equipment, Endowment

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• You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Boulders, Blame

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.116, Broadway Books

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• Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Play, Lovely, Jokes

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.758, e-artnow

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• There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Pain, Loneliness, Grief

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• Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Sweat, Soul

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• Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Bread, Hopeless

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pain, Long, Abortion

  Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Trying, Can't Change

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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• The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Sweat, People

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• I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.

  Clara Blandick

  Pain, Suicidal, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Hair, Flames, White

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• Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Exercise, Scary

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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