#agonizing

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#bleeds #dark #heart #hide #our

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#death #faith #hope #life #love

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#anxiety #constant #find #free #long

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#firsthand #how #i #know #waiting

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#considered #difficult #i #i love #know