Agonizing quotes
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change"
"Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most."
"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."
"Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us."
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"There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing."
