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• If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Wise, Book, Stories

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

  Aeschylus

  Blood, Hands, House

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memories, Believe, Autumn

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• Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Running, Laughter

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• I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Travel, Tired

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• Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.

  Kevin Myers

  Country, Peace, War

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• All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

  Kate Braverman

  Artist, Used, Collectives

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• Can we accept the unexplained, the loss,
  The crushing agony, and hold us still.
  And nowhere is that clearer vision given
  Which pierces a bewildering providence,
  And opens windows upon highest heaven,
  But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.

  Amy Carmichael

  Crush, Loss, Omnipotence

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.432, CLC Publications

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• Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.

  Shoma Morita

  Pain, Emotional, Self

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• Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Garden, Race

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

  Eyedea

  Perfection, Connections, Accepting

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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Fishing, People

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Justice, Diversity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Doe, Firsts, Execution

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• Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

  Carl Rogers

  Marriage, Learning, Preparation

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• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, World

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.563, Knopf

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• What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessing, Stronger, Curse

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• It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory.
  But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.

  Steve Cauthen

  Greatness, Inspire, Racing

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• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Summer, Creativity, Winter

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• I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.289, Best Books on

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• Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.

  Nick Gordon

  Blessed, Heart, Dark

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• God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Husband, War, Heart

  Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903). “The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston”

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Waiting, Goes On

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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• We do have choice, but not without some agony.

  Josephine Hart

  Choices

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