Anguish Quote by James Thomson

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow…

— Thomas Hardy

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

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

— Jacqueline Carey

“Perverse times have come The mystery of the Beloved to reveal Crows have begun to hunt hawks, Sparrows have vanquished falcons. Horse browse on…

— Bullhe Shāh

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We are doomed to remain incomplete in our present existence. Our hopes and deepest longings will remain nothing but just that; Our hopes and…

— Alister E. McGrath

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the…

— Francois Fenelon

“There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords, I am not…

— william shakespeare

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished…

— Mary Shelley

“Sniffer of carrion, premature gravedigger, seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word, you, who sleep at our vigil…

— James Joyce