Anguish Quote by Virginia Woolf

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

— Rembrandt

“The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.”

— Isaac Marion

I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the…

— Isaac Marion

“Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.”

— Bryant McGill

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and…

— Khalil Gibran

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

— Virginia Woolf

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After…

— Virginia Woolf

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

— Natalie Wood

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to…

— Charles Baudelaire

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human…

— Stacy Aumonier