Definition of Agony

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Definition of Agony

Agony

Violent contest or striving.

Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.

Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.

The last struggle of life; death struggle.

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Agony Quotations

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

Acting is happy agony.
Jean-Paul Sartre

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf

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

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
Jack Kevorkian

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
Jack Kevorkian

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. Salinger

Agony Translations

agony in Danish is angst
agony in Dutch is doodsangst, doodsstrijd, agonie
agony in Finnish is tuska
agony in French is angoisse, agonie
agony in German is Todeskampf
agony in Portuguese is agonia

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