Anguish Quotes

334 Anguish quotes by 269 unique authors

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure. — Francoise Sagan
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope… — James Thomson
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. — Irvin D. Yalom
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant… — James E. Faust
Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost… — Tabitha Suzuma
What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the… — John Ajvide Lindqvist
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know. — Marquis de Sade
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such… — Hermann Hesse
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.… — Erich Segal
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest… — Herman Melville
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew. — Pablo Neruda
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor… — Shalom Auslander
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my… — Anne Bronte
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby.… — Cormac McCarthy
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic… — Nathanael West
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered… — Orhan Pamuk
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness.… — Khaled Hosseini
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin… — Jack Kerouac
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a… — Pablo Neruda
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. — Aberjhani

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