Agony Quotes - Page 18

• I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

  Francois Truffaut

  Joy, Cinema, Demand

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• I tried to concentrate on the angel's voice instead. "Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, please, please, please, Bella, please!" he begged. Yes, I wanted to say. Anything. But I couldn't find my lips. "Carlisle!" the angel called, agony in his perfect voice. "Bella, Bella, no, oh please, no, no!" And the angel was sobbing tearless, broken sobs. The angel shouldn't weep, it was wrong. I tried to find him, to tell him everything was fine, but the water was so deep, it was pressing on me, and I couldn't breathe.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Angel, Voice, Broken

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• Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?

  Randy Alcorn

  Years, Giving, Joy

  Randy Alcorn (2017). “Seeing the Unseen, Expanded Edition: A 90-Day Devotional to Set Your Mind on Eternity”, p.83, Multnomah

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• True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

  David Gemmell

  Fall, Sleep, Riding

  David Gemmell (2003). “White Wolf: A Novel of Druss the Legend”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

  Emily Dickinson

  Despair, Safe, Rave

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1522, Delphi Classics

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• Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Depth, Roaring

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.77, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Affliction, Faces

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.14, Discovery House

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• All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Glory, Young

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, White

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

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• I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me.

  Julianne Moore

  Running, Couple, Yoga

  "Julianne Moore's Fab at 50 Secrets". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2012.

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• Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Writing, Eight, Pages

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• There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this.
  I will triumph over you.

  Julie Berry

  Letting Go, Real, Independent

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• Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Pain, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1403, Zebra Books

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• To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Mother, Father, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Edition”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Kindness, Lying

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.376, Penguin

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• The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

  Iain Banks

  People, Comfort, Morality

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• You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Essence

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Car, Police

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• I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Flower, Cutting, Sea

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• For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Kids, Eye

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• I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the world conceives Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Dream, Hate

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Years

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Night, Remembrance, Company

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• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Things In Life, Sweat

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Self, Anxiety

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