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

Some Who Every Observant

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Abraham Lincoln

Sad Experience World Know

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

You Great Story Inside Than

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Me Joy Security Real

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

Freedom Blood Too Much Price

Acting is happy agony.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life Grief Instant Indulgence

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

Love Look Only Parting

Writing is agony. I hate it.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

Chuck Palahniuk

Job Joy Promotion Writing

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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Ezra Taft Benson

God Father Gift Suffering

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Me Food Feelings Misery

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

Down Trying Exhausted Just

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

Dreams Wife Soul Corruption

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

Love Simple Woman People

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.

Life God People World

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

Life My Life Mind Great

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Death Moment You Pain

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

Death Fear Experience You

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Day God Path Gold

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

Mother Angelica

Love Death God Loneliness

Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation.

Mother Angelica

Life God Sometimes Direction

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Dream Poet Written Valentine

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

Death Fear End Want

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?

You Suffering Think End

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.

Waiting Tired Political Nation

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