237 Quotes About Agony




  • Author Rob Sheffield
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    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.

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  • Author Scott Stossel
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    During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

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  • Author Francois Truffaut
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    I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

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  • Author Jalal Talabani
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    I am sure you will turn this sadness and agony into a feeling of hatred toward the killers,

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  • Author Scott Turow
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    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.

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  • Author Bill Vaughan
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    Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

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