Anguish Quotes

334 quotes by 270 authors

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
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
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. — Roger Caras
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. — Lucretius

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