Agonizing Quotes
Words for the moments that ache the most.
These quotes explore what it means to call something truly Difficult - a novelist's tangled relationship with writing, and a lifelong physical condition that causes real daily pain.
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.
Basically, I suffer from a genetic condition that causes my corneas to tear all the time. If it's happened to you even once, you know how agonizing it can be - for me, it was happening on a daily basis.
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I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!
My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched...
Always Quotes
I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.
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...
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
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.
Book Quotes
'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.'
Since reading 'Sophie's Choice,' I have been haunted by the agonizing idea of choosing between two children.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
Difficult Quotes
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say...
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One entry also touches on a difficult personal decision some women describe as agonizing, without taking a side. Together they show how the word covers both emotional and physical suffering, from a stubborn writing Book to the body itself.
