Agony Quotes

• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013

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• Here then is a great #‎ truth . In the #‎ pain , the #‎ agony , and the #‎ heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a #‎ refiner 's #‎ fire , and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our #‎ faith #‎ bright , #‎ intact , and #‎ strong .

  James E. Faust

  Strong, Pain, Adversity

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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• Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.

  Larry Lea

  Change, Discipline, Choices

  Larry Lea (2012). “Could You Not Tarry: Learning the Joy of Prayer”, p.180, Charisma Media

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• You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Acceptance, Years, Contentment

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• Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life And Death, Awareness, Disappear

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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Character, Offering

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Flower, Tears

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• Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sea, Soul, Saint

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 4

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• Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

  Thomas Sowell

  Blood, Cost, Agonizing

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.118, Basic Books

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• Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Grief, Grieving

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

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• Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Pain, Mind

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1946). “The flies (Les mouches): and, In camera (Huit clos)”

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• I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Bitterness, Contrast

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

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• Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

  Harold Brodkey

  Pain, Shock, Ill

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• Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

  Lance Loud

  Waiting, Tedium, Happens

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• The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Feelings, Misery, Rage

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Suffering, Firsts

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• I see before me the gladiator lie.

  Lord Byron

  Lying

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

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• What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

  Germaine Greer

  Creating, Personality, Female

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

  William C. Bryant

  Pain, Reign, Fierce

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

  Cotton Mather

  Impossible, Saved, Asks

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• Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Want, Fear Of Death, Ends

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• Run like hell and get the agony over with.

  Clarence DeMar

  Inspirational, Running, Track

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• Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

  Louise Bogan

  Marble, Statues

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• We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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