"What is a poet? An unhappy person who……" — Soren Kierkegaard

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• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,… — Charles Baudelaire
• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
• There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. — Roger Caras
• The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists,… — Nick Cave
• I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,… — Leonard Cohen
• Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and… — Spencer W. Kimball
• As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what… — Aberjhani
• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of… — Aldous Huxley
• At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all… — Hermann Hesse
• Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,… — Morrie Schwartz
• 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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