All Quotes By Tag: Agony

“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is a part of life, not death. And I—I am the first moment after pain ceases,” he [Death] pronounced. “It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.”

Card image cap - Vera Nazarian,
Tag: agony, death, death-and-dying, dying, existence, fear, life, living, pain, unknown,

“Inventiveness can set you off any trauma, suffering or a deep agony, so keep tailing her hand.”

- Yash Thakur
Tag: agony, inpirational, inventiveness, keep-tailing, knowledge, motivational, suffering, trauma,

“The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing.”

- W. Scott Lineberry
Tag: agony, healing, jesus, pain, religion, searching, suffering,

“I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.”

- C.L. Cagan
Tag: agony, god, pain, religion, sleep,

“Jesus came to hell to help save the sinners, but all we did was prolong his agony.”

- Anthony T. Hincks
Tag: agony, god, help, jesus, philosophy, prolong, religion, sinners, suffering,

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

Card image cap - George Eliot
Tag: agony, introspection, love, parting,