Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies. — Guy de Maupassant 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
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
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and… — James Thomson Copy Share Image
The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
“What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to… — Jessica Powers Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
“I forbid you to go." "I am not yours to forbid. Comfort your pride with your conquest!" "Felicia!" The raw anguish of… — Teresa Denys Copy Share Image
“Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of how eagerly you experienced that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image