237 Quotes About Agony

We all enter a period of agony, when our heart is hungry and the only one who could feed it, never will.

naivete is the only road to salvation. But for those who feel and conceive life as a long agony, the question of salvation is a simple one. There is no salvation on their road.

Life is the privilege of mediocre people. Only mediocrities live at life's normal temperature; the others are consumed at temperatures at which life cannot endure, at which they can barely breathe, already one foot beyond life.

Great art is an escape from the agony of why.

I did not know it was such pain to die; I thought that life had taken all the agonies to itself.

Love was an agony beyond compare

Worst kind of motivation is one where people comfort you by telling about other people who have lost more than you, had pain more than you. How that's supposed to ease out the agony?

Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.

Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.