Battle Quote by Nikos Kazantzakis

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

“ 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

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our…

— Deepak Chopra

“Sorrow is the darkest, most intense form of passion hidden in the recesses of the human spirit.”

— Andrea Randall

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For…

— Anonymous

“But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will you embrace…

— Homer

“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the tears, the…

— Victor Hugo

“My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul”

— Rumi

“...out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand, like an…

— Georges Bataille

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties,…

— Anne Brontë

“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery…

— Friedrich Nietzsche