Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by…

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.”

— Mary Shelley

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back…

— Louise Bogan

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

— Amaal Mallik

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to…

— Charles Baudelaire

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

— Natalie Wood

Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish…

— Tony Bishop

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human…

— Stacy Aumonier

pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

— Fernando Pessoa

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

— Samuel Florman

“He put his forehead against hers. “Alannah, my heart is yours.” He said softly. “And yet, I must hand it over to someone else…

— B.C. Morin

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings