There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. — Roger Caras 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
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it. — William Styron 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
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that… — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“I did not love it, but I loved it. The fear I felt then was not just the anguish in my gut… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable… — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
“Nothing else cuts through the mist of my anguish like the sunflower of your smiles.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Look carefully, 99 percent face fear, anguish, pain, separation and tragedy. Who could imagine this world? — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
