Anguish Quote by Eyvind Johnson

“the suffering experienced here on earth is but for a moment, and it pales in comparison to the glory which will be revealed.”

— Cassandra Baker-Durham

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

— Edith Hamilton

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior…

— Mother Angelica

“No pain can be greater than the pain of one person. [...] In other words, no suffering can be greater than that of one…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are…

— Marion Woodman

Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense,…

— John Wesley

“Pain, as well as beauty, is necessary to give us perspective. We can place our suffering against the backdrop of time and allow our…

— Mary Pipher

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

— Graham Greene

“The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace…

— Adolf Hitler

“I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight the sun…

— Winston Churchill

“How much there is to suffer. When was time enough to pay attention to our lighter emotions? And still I recognize, better than most…

— Rainer Maria Rilke