“Mute nostril agony.”
"Horse Latitudes"
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lead singer of The Doors 1943–1971Related quotes
“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
Source: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Context: Civilization begins with a rebellion. Prometheus, one of the Titans, steals fire from the gods on Mount Olympus and brings it as a gift to man, marking the birth of human culture. For this rebellion Zeus sentences him to be chained to Mount Caucasus where vultures consume his liver during the day and at night it grows back only to be again eaten away the next day. This is a tale of the agony of the creative individual, whose nightly rest only resuscitates him so that he can endure his agonies the next day.
“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”
Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
“Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 24
“Teas,
Where small talk dies in agonies.”
Peter Bell the Third (1819), Pt. III, st. 12
“I stood in unimaginable trance
And agony that cannot be remembered.”
Remorse, Act iv, scene 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)