I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.
No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
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another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it
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.
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
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.
Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.
Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.
It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.
The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
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.
I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking about his 'God-given talent. ' That's how men who don't try very hard comfort themselves.
