#agony

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

— Ben Hecht

#dream #i #poet #raucous #valentine

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. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#backs #branded #day #foreheads #give

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#being #combines #die #i #ill

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#character #depression #existence #felt #give

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. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#america #born #committee #economic #industrial

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. ↗

— Lance Loud

#experienced #happen #i #perhaps #something

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#bear #biological #blood #bloodstream #bloody

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#believe #i #i believe #i believe in #joy