However oppressed by my own or others' anguish, I am not…

It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel…

— George P. Bush

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

— Natalie Wood

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

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

— Samuel Florman

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…

— Willa Cather

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an…

— Marcel Marceau

I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The…

— David Gemmell

Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings…

— Oriana Fallaci

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

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

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

“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