Quotes with agonizing

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• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

  Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

  Iris Murdoch
  Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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• 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.

  Agnes De Mille
  American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness
• preoccupation
• unconcerned
• unremitting
• application
• theater

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