Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

Robert E. Howard

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

William Goldman

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

Scott Turow

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

Ellen G. White

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.

The agony that we went through needed to be redeemed, and needed to be recompensed, and that did occur and we're very happy that this part is over.

Louis Agassiz

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

Francois Truffaut

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.

Louise Rennison

i will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

Emily Dickinson

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

Edith Hamilton

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

Henrik Ibsen

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

John L. Lewis

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

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

We're in constant agony that our son is gone.

When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation. The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

C. S. Lewis

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

Betty Friedan

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

We experienced the classic cliche -- the thrill of victory and agony of defeat.

Romano Prodi

prolonging this agony would be grave for all of our families, companies and for the country's economy.

Emily Bronte

Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.

Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.'aged 4, having hot coffee spilt over his legs

Mariella Frostrup

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!

Jay Leno

It was very funny. It was agony for him when it was 'stolen' from the yard. Women think it's so cruel. Guys think it's hilarious. It's a guy thing I guess.

Patrick Fitzgerald

You need to understand the pain, the horror, the agony that the bombing put so many families through.

James Whistler

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?

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

Charles Bukowski

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

Suzy Menkes

I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end it's only the decorative arts. I had a feeling towards the end that Saint Laurent and Berge were very keen to attain that immortality that a lot of designers long for. You know, those endless exhibitions.

Edgar Allan Poe

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Edgar Allan Poe

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

Rose George

Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me.