Anguish Quotes

334 Anguish quotes by 269 unique authors

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy? — Robert Browning
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear. — Euripides
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows,… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish,… — James Nachtwey
Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish. — Samuel Florman
Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to… — Joseph Girzone
If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa… — Mata Amritanandamayi
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of… — John Hay
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction… — Ignatius Loyola
It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling… — Walter Mason Camp
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision,… — Peter York
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear… — David Wolpe
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. — Benjamin Disraeli
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate… — William Shakespeare
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has… — Paul Gauguin
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one… — Robert Motherwell
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go… — Emily Dickinson
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the… — Theodore Roosevelt
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock… — Emily Dickinson
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -… — George Eliot

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