The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul. — Angelus Silesius Copy Share Image
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Copy Share Image
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“And if you’re referring to your anguish, it’s just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave… — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
“He put his forehead against hers. “Alannah, my heart is yours.” He said softly. “And yet, I must hand it over to… — B.C. Morin Copy Share Image
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young… — Lynda Lee-Potter Copy Share Image
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from… — Annalee Skarin Copy Share Image
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Amren,' Varian said, and sank onto his knees. 'I am begging you-' ... She looked to Varian, a wry smile on her… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The Fellowship of the Ring is like lightning from a clear sky. . . To say that in it heroic romance, gorgeous,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“No" she jerked back, stared up at him. Her eyes were like thunderclouds. He'd never seen them like that. Shock and fear… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
“I can hear myself whining again 'Why does God torture me?' - But anybody who's never had a delirium tremens even in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Love never comes with a brochure of rules and regulations, a prospectus with guides of what is acceptable and what is abominable.… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.” — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist. — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“An obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face.” — Andrew Hussie Copy Share Image
