Agonizing Quotes
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
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.
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.
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.
Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change
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.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
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.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
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.
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.
...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
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -
I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.
As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
