Famous Quotes & Sayings

John L. Lewis

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

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.

Rob Sheffield

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

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.

Richelle Mead

I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony

Rebecca West

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Robert E. Howard

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

Solomon Northup

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

Spike Milligan

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

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.

William Goldman

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Walt Whitman

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

Robin Morgan

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

Yann Martel

For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.