Anguish Quote by Samuel Johnson

“He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— "Have a care of the manner…

— Victor Hugo

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a…

— John Keats

“When I lie waking all alone, Recounting what I have ill done, My thoughts on me then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me surprise, Whether…

— Robert Burton

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.…

— Wilfred Owen

“I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with misery, all…

— A.E. Housman

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a…

— Anonymous

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

“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

“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God’s…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting?…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from…

— Christopher Hitchens