The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger…

And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from…

— Alexander Smith

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of…

— Breyten Breytenbach

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

— Marilyn Monroe

I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“... he ran across the road and began to walk at breakneck speed down the hill. He hardly knew where he was walking. Pride…

— James Joyce

“As they stood there, anguished wails continued to come from within.”

— Christa Faust

“Do they still hurt?" she whispered in anguished surprise. "No," Jason said tautly. Shame washed over him in sickening waves as he waited helplessly…

— Judith McNaught Once and Always

I've never done an anguished painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent…

— Sigrid Undset

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow…

— Hilary Mantel

No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

— George H. W. Bush

“An obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face.”

— Andrew Hussie

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or…

— Garry Trudeau

So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by…

— Anonymous

Other than they may or may not have discussed the relative merits of the Electoral College vs. the popular vote, what I am told…

— Karen Tumulty