“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.” WorldWritingEndsSelfDreamPainFacesEvilHalfDespairOfficeAnxietyWindowTrainDepthPopulationPainfulStrangerFoolishPostsGood And EvilContinentsClosestAgonyDisguiseGlimpseOur DreamsEnd Of The WorldDiscouragementLove And DeathPost OfficeRefreshmentsClumsiness Author:John Cheever
“When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.” PersonsRealTogetherPleasureAnxietyPaintStudiosNervousKicksAgony Author:Luc Tuymans
“The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.” KnowsCareChristianSpiritualFightingReligiousChristianityCasesStruggleWeekDrinkBattleConflictAnxietyAll ThingsDressesRoundsTake CareAbsenceApathyAgonyWarfareFormalContestsSymptomsSaddestGet MoneySpiritual WarfareGreat Spiritual Author:J. C. Ryle
“It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.” KindMayLittlesStillsMatterPainExistenceBrokenArmsAnxietyMeaninglessAgonyAngstPhenomenalWithdrawalSmack Book:Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade Source: Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.” IfsLoveRealStatesHappinessNightLove IsWorryAnxietyAskingConstantContraryRight ThingEcstasyReal LoveAgonyBattlefieldsDoing The Right ThingWhat Is HappinessSleepless NightsHappiness LoveWitch Of Portobello Author:Paulo Coelho
“Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.” PeopleMenHeartI CanGodJoyChristAcceptingMy HeartAnxietyMen And WomenQuittingAgonyPreachingAisle Author:Billy Sunday
“Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.” TryingStatesHomeDifferencesTeachAnxietyControlledAgonyHysteria Author:Arthur Miller
“Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.” WorldLoveLifeHumansProblemTruthSufferingHuman BeingsGreaterAnxietyExtraordinarySensitiveTruth Of LifeAgonyTruth LoveObservant Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.” MindSelfScienceAnxietyResearchScientistSatisfactionCollectivesAgonyDissatisfactionRestlessnessEnquirySelf-satisfactionPersonal Satisfaction Author:Jacques Monod