Anguish Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful…

— John Muir

“What is there, in the mention of Time To Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a pain in…

— Richard Llewellyn

“The perturbations, anxieties, depravations, deaths, exceptions in the physical or moral order, spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations fostered by the will, torments, destruction, confusion,…

— Lautréamont

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

— Richard Whately

“Consider how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered…

— Virginia Woolf

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her way, in…

— Frederick Douglass

Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome…

— Munshi Premchand

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

— W. H. Auden

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

— Annie Dillard

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

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing…

— Henri Frederic Amiel