Agonizing Quotes

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  Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Canvas, Frida

  Diego Rivera, Gladys March (1960). “My art, my life: an autobiography”

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• I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Ideas, Looks, World

  "The Search for a Soul". Book by Jess Stearn, 1972.

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• It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, Struggle, Fighting

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• They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Night, Years, Drawing

  "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik" by M. M. Moeller, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, (p. 184), 1990.

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• 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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• Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Hope, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Political, Skins

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• I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Writing, Difficult, Profession

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Twins”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

  Pierre Loti

  Memories, Eight, Years

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• Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

  Agnes de Mille

  America, People, Forgotten

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• Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Anxiety

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• I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

  Joe Manchin

  Waiting, Knows

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• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

  Taylor Caldwell

  Looks, Oblivion

  "The Search For A Soul". Book by Jess Stearn, 1972.

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Blood, Agony, Cost

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

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• It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

  Richelle Mead

  Different, Realizing, Accepting

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.68, Penguin

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• Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

  John L. Lewis

  Agony, Organization, America

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• The Soul unto itself
  Is an imperial friend, -
  Or the most agonizing Spy -
  An Enemy - could send -

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Soul, Enemy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.261, Harvard University Press

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• The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Waiting, Lasts

  Roger Ebert (2012). “A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck”, p.175, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Past, Long Ago, Should Have

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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