Anguish Quotes

334 Anguish quotes by 269 unique authors

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the… — James A. Baldwin
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise… — Emily Bronte
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition. — Bell Hooks
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and… — Soren Kierkegaard
She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment,… — Kate Chopin
Mirth is the Mail of Anguish -- — Emily Dickinson
She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs. — Dean Koontz
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever;… — Lionel Shriver
...my soul bleeding tears of anguish — Katie MacAlister
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s… — Barack Obama
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city,… — Milan Kundera
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I… — George Eliot
Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart… — Albert Camus
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known… — Victor Hugo
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And… — George Carlin
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? — Georges Bernanos
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to… — Louise Bogan
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and… — Michel de Montaigne
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with… — Georges Bataille
And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer. — Rainer Maria Rilke
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered… — Orhan Pamuk
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real… — Saul Bellow
And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could… — Emily Bronte

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