One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
John L. Lewis

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
Lance Loud

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

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

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou

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

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

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

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
Louise Bogan