Anguish Quotes

... true faith never comes without anguish.

— R.L. LaFevers

“But I miss you to the point of anguish.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Only the broken beyond repair could know my anguish.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.”

— Billie-Jo Williams

“From perfect joy to total anguish”

— Anonymous

Can every anguish calmly bear.

— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

“Angel full of gaiety, do you know anguish?   Angel”

— Charles Baudelaire

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

— Lester Levenson

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

— Roger Caras

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

— Lucretius

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

— Robert Browning

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

— William Styron

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

— Georges Bernanos

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

— Sri Aurobindo

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

— Guy de Maupassant

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level…

— Sharon Salzberg

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She…

— Charles Bronson

Emptiness eatting down into my very soul, Silently screaming myself to sleep at night, Anguish exacting its excruciating toll…

— Anonymous

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished…

— Ed Zern

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is…

— Paul Gauguin

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

— Cesare Pavese

“Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.”

— Émile Zola

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me…

— Dorothy Day

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance…

— Charles Gounod

“The degree of satisfaction and relief lessened each time she opened a new wound, each time she drank a mouthful of her…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which…

— Alexandre Dumas

As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one…

— Thomas Merton

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone…

— Lance B. Wickman

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has…

— Joyce Kilmer

This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,…

— James Martineau

Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones.…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a…

— Charlotte Brontë

Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too…

— Paul Hamilton Hayne

There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in…

— David Wolpe

“What grief is not taken away by time? What passion will survive an unequal battle with it? I knew a man in…

— Nikolai Gogol