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What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony. -- Cotton Mather
Acting is happy agony. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -- Maya Angelou
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. -- George Eliot
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. -- Jack Kevorkian
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. -- Thomas Sowell
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. -- Bela Lugosi
Agony without genius was gaucherie. -- Hortense Calisher
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. -- Mercedes McCambridge
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony. -- Ben Hecht
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. -- Merle Shain
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace. -- Emily Dickinson
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. -- Lance Loud
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. -- John L. Lewis
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. -- Emily Dickinson
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe -- Emily Dickinson
Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now -- Eyedea
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. -- Harold Brodkey
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do. -- Leon Uris
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. -- Everett Dirksen
The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony. -- Samuel Logan Brengle
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. -- Clara Schumann
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate. -- Chaim Potok
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. -- J. D. Salinger
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. -- Albert Claude
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. -- Eric Liu
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder. -- David Cronenberg
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised. -- Rajneesh
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. -- Virginia Woolf
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. -- Merle Shain
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. -- Louise Bogan
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. -- Merle Shain
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. -- C. S. Lewis
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. -- David S. Rose
It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony. -- Alan Greenspan
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three. -- Mariella Frostrup
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. -- James E. Faust
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. -- John L. Lewis
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony. -- Lara Stone
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble. -- Britt Ekland
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. -- Victoria Woodhull
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book. -- Ian Fleming
I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps. -- Alan Arkin
Speech isn't for agony. -- Hortense Calisher
Excruciating agony makes me cranky. -- Brandon Mull
Writing is a delicious agony. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Writing a novel is agony. -- George Orwell
Love was an agony beyond compare -- Nalini Singh
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. -- William Shakespeare
We don't like trading agony for money -- Charlie Munger
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace. -- Aberjhani
Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Run like hell and get the agony over with. -- Clarence DeMar
We do have choice, but not without some agony. -- Josephine Hart
Listen, someone's screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently -- Spike Milligan
agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody. -- Charles Bukowski
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. -- Martin Heidegger
I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close. -- Lisa Kleypas
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand. -- June Jordan
The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war. -- Menachem Begin
There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness -- Marlena De Blasi
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. -- William James
You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. -- William Goldman
Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure. -- Euripides
I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot. -- Mahatma Gandhi
we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years -- Charles Bukowski
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way. -- Quentin Crisp
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death. -- Robert E. Howard
There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony. -- Edith Hamilton
Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony -- Munia Khan
You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again. -- Ruben Papian
An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug. -- Lorrie Moore
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory -- C. S. Lewis
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content. -- Sally Jessy Raphael
I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony. -- Emile M. Cioran
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing. -- Laura Z. Hobson
It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads. -- Zadie Smith
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony. -- Isadora Duncan
Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare. -- Nalini Singh
Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode. -- Kate Braverman
The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor. -- Max Anders
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. -- Rupert Brooke
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. -- Rumi
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. -- Jane Austen
War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. -- David Gemmell
I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony. -- Henry Clay Trumbull
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality. -- Gene Weingarten
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies or play baseball. -- Carlton Fisk
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball. -- Carlton Fisk
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her. -- Scott Spencer
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
The true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt. -- Christopher Paolini
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony. -- Catullus
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution. -- Henrik Ibsen
Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart,In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart. -- Ankita Singhal
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order. -- Bernard Crick
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. -- Elizabeth Kostova
I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create -- Michael Jackson
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. -- Hannah More
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. -- Timothy Keller
The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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