Anguish Quotes
334 Anguish quotes by 269 unique authors
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I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall…
— Frank O'Hara
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes…
— William Faulkner
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Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true…
— Alberto Manguel
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One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
— William Shakespeare
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The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon…
— J. B. Priestley
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He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish…
— Charlotte Bronte
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.…
— George Eliot
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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges…
— Henri Nouwen
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Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling…
— Virginia Woolf
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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the…
— John Milton
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And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,…
— Chaim Potok
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pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade…
— Nella Larsen
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At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop…
— Marcel Proust
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Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder…
— Leo Rosten
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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or…
— Anton Chekhov
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... true faith never comes without anguish.
— R.L. LaFevers
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The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.
— Suzanne Collins
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Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his…
— Nadeem Aslam
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If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as…
— Primo Levi
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...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and…
— Charlotte Bronte
Who Wrote These Anguish Quotes
269 authors contributed a total of 334 Anguish Quotes, led by these top contributors: