Agonizing Quotations

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

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

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.

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.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

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

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

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

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

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

If we had done better at home, we wouldn't have been in such an anxious, agonizing situation.

When they got two more runs to put us down six, I think we got down a little bit. The next thing you know, it was a slow and agonizing death.

People in the community are agonizing and asking, 'What could we have done to prevent this?' ... We've been working very hard over the past four to five years liaising with the authorities . . . with various agencies organizing and supervising youth activities. And still this has happened.

Without a doubt, the basketball scandal (of 2003 under then-head coach Dave Bliss) was the most trying time. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It was agonizing, and the most agonizing part was the effect it had on the families.

The deceased victims' deaths were slow and agonizing and, in essence, occurred in ever-increasing stages of mental anguish and physical pain.

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

While so many children are agonizing through this tragedy, ... those who suffered through the nightmare in the Superdome draw strongly on our compassion.

We have been beaten and had agonizing losses and we've lost games every way imaginable for way too long to get overconfident. We knew we couldn't dig a hole like last year. You know where that's going to get you, in any sport. So to come out clean and efficient is obviously a step in the right direction.

Every journalist in Europe is agonizing over this issue. This is not about intimidation. It's a complex debate about informing readers and causing offense unnecessarily.

At one point, after having already become a Grandmaster and champion of the USSR,I suddenly realized that I am heading for a dead end... I had to start everything over. But how hard and agonizing it is when you're no longer 16, but twice that age!

This film for sure will get an Oscar nomination for Paltrow. It might even win it for her again. This is a very intensely dramatic film. It's a really agonizing role.

It's like a roulette wheel you bet on in Las Vegas. It's an agonizing decision.

The Norse held values that would not allow them to deal with... pagans and certainly would not let them eat fish and hunt ringed seals the way these pagans did. So here is a case where the values that sustained them for 450 years ultimately killed them. The United States faces similar agonizing reappraisals today.

I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

The first day I was okay, but the second day it felt like I had the worst flu of my life. My arms and my legs were in agonizing pain. I was puking and shaking and had the cold sweats.

I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.

In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.