"Needs there groan a world in anguish just……" — Robert Browning
"Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?"
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262 Quotes by Robert Browning
Robert Browning has 262 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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God is the perfect poet.
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Love is energy of life.
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry…
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to…
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More Anguish Quotes
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
— Roger Caras
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists,…
— Nick Cave
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
— Aberjhani
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
— Hermann Hesse
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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