Anguish Quote by George Eliot

“A vast dawning entirety lies before the soul, our senses lose themselves in it as do our eyes and oh! we long to make…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers,…

— Celia Thaxter

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and…

— James E. Faust

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of…

— Douglas MacArthur

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

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we…

— Marcel Proust

“Endure every difficulty and hardship with a dilated heart, attract spirit and eloquent tongue, in remembrance of the merciful.”

— Anonymous

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…

— Georges Bataille

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought that in…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible…

— Joseph Addison