As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

— Ayelet Waldman

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

— Munia Khan

A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid, red hives, bloody scratches. His bloodshot eyes bulged, darting back and forth.

— James Dashner

Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Clouds shed the agony of the sky and rain concludes it by covering us in filth. What do you think about the puddles of mud and traffic jams? I so hate rain.

— Pushpa Rana

Despair" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums" )

— Erik Pevernagie

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Don’t let the agony, regret, or fog of yesterday blind you to the fact that each new day carries with it a plethora of opportunities to move your life into the right direction.

— Steve Maraboli

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

— Munia Khan