T. S. Eliot Quotes, Writing Quotes, Agony Quotes

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

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Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.

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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

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Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

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One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

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Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

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Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

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