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

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

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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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Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

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

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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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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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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

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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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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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That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

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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 will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

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...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

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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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