agony quotes

7 quotes

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

George Eliot

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Virginia Woolf

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

C. S. Lewis

Acting is happy agony.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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