Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Scott Peck

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

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.

Their money will only bring them pain and agony and they will lose.

Solomon Northup

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

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.

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Robert E. Howard

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

Walt Whitman

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

Spike Milligan

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

Rick Riordan

Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests Horus.

William Goldman

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

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.