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I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be. -- Joe Manchin
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. -- Elbert Hubbard
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. -- Caroline B. Cooney
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
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
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life. -- Julianna Baggott
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
Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat. -- Leonard Ravenhill
We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did -- Diego Rivera
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send - -- Emily Dickinson
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. -- Roger Ebert
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. -- Max Brooks
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you. -- Iris Johansen
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write. -- Edna Ferber
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
There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone. -- Jocelyn Murray
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is. -- Jan Struther
There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment. -- Vita Sackville-West
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. -- Countee Cullen
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it. -- Karen Horney
As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.' -- John Burdett
In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing. -- Tom Shales
I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book! -- Sarah Dessen
The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists. -- Leslie Howard
You can spend your time agonizing or organizing. -- Dorothy Day
One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man. -- Zedd
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. -- Ray Bradbury
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. -- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. -- Victor Hugo
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing. -- Ronald Reagan
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
How agonizing it was,this life of silence and yearning. Yet how very worth it when his eyes found hers. -- Marissa Meyer
Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change -- Jordan Sonnenblick
As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. -- Clint Eastwood
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself. -- John Rosemond
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing. -- Mort Sahl
If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change. -- Chris Guillebeau
Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way. -- Simon Roberts
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. -- Elizabeth Drew
Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort. -- John Burdett
Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall. -- Paul Davies
...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon -- Christopher Paolini
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing. -- Jonathan Tropper
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman. -- Barry S. Strauss
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. -- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death. -- Alan Bradley
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

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