Agony Quotes - Page 18

• 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.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  17 Copy quote

• We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.

  Tom Van Vleck

  Water, Suffering, Black

  4 Copy quote

• Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.

  Ludacris

  Revenge, Pain, Trying

  Song: Child of the Night, Album: The Red Light District, 2004

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", p. 40, darwin-online.org.uk. 1871.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Perfect, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

  James Whistler

  Causes, Painting, Cry

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.44, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Scales, Existence, Sensible

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 70), 2006.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Fall, Destiny, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Soul, Suffering

  1594-5 Biron. Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, sc.2, l.843.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on.

  Donald Barthelme

  Intelligent, Garden, Two

  Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

  Ellen G. White

  Might, Kingdoms, Calvary

  Ellen G. White (1926). “The Desire of Ages—Illustrated”, p.228, Digital Inspiration

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Reading, Yale, Rome

  4 Copy quote

• Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Grief, Profound, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Jobs, Thinking, Decision

  "The Power of the Media, Part I". "The Open Mind", archive.org. 1990.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Hours, Disciple

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 89), 1895.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  War, Eye, Men

  "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mother, Heaven, Soul

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1835). “Outre-mer: a pilgrimage beyond the sea”, p.191

  5 Copy quote

  Show source