Anguish Quotes

334 Anguish quotes by 269 unique authors

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we… — Barbara Kingsolver
Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes… — Charlotte Bronte
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted. — Betty Smith
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from… — Alexandre Dumas
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for… — Charles Baxter
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them… — Virginia Woolf
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy… — Guy Finley
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of… — Garth Stein
It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His… — Maggie Stiefvater
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. — James Joyce
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times… — Madeleine L'Engle
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. — Edgar Allan Poe
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have… — Marisha Pessl
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and… — Brennan Manning
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non… — Maira Kalman
Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the… — Elizabeth George
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own… — Elie Wiesel
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. — John Keats
I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most… — David Gemmell

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