Top 541 Agony Quotes & Sayings

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.

Excruciating agony makes me cranky.

I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.

Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.

There is no greater agony than carrying the burden of an untold story.

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

Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped.

I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

Acting is happy agony.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he would do, where he would be, who he would be. And it's sort of interesting because Eleanor Roosevelt never writes about her mother's agony. She only writes about her father's agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.

Excellent." Captain nods. "Cabel. What's your job?" Watching in agony, sir." Captain suppressed a smile. "I'd make you stay home if I didn't know you'd sneak out, anyway. while you are watching in agony, feel free to take note of anyone who comes or goes that's not on the list.

Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Writing a novel is agony.

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

Listen, someone's screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently

We don't like trading agony for money

Love was an agony beyond compare

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

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

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

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.

The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

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

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

Speech isn't for agony.

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

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.