Anguish Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Religion in its true sense is the most joyous thing the human soul can know, and when the real religion is realized, we will…

— Ralph Waldo Trine

We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

— Paulo Coelho

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive…

— Walter Scott

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

— Huston Smith

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if…

— William James

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

— John Donne

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the…

— Hall Caine

“Religion arose out of celebration and its opposite, bereavement, both of which cry out for collective expression.”

— Huston Smith

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great…

— Oscar Wilde