Anguish Quotes
334 quotes by 270 authors
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
— Roger Caras
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of…
— Nick Cave
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes…
— Leonard Cohen
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people…
— Aberjhani
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
— Aldous Huxley
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,…
— Hermann Hesse
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a…
— Edward Kennedy
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Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who…
— Edward Kennedy
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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate…
— Eugene Ionesco
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
— Lucretius
Who Wrote These Anguish Quotes
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