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Quotes About Anguished

Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind. He strode down the hill amid the tumult of suddenrisen vapours of wounded pride and fallen hope and baffled desire. they streamed upwards before his anguished eyes in dense and maddening fumes and passed away above him till at last the air was clear and cold again.
~ James Joyce
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.
~ Lemony Snicket
There are clear modern-day analogies to ragbags of the sanctimonious who are nebulously anguished at the iniquities of capitalism, but far more so at any thought of fundamental change.
~ China Mieville
O, full of scorpions is my mind!
~ William Shakespeare
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
~ Herman Melville
distraught. It seems he claims
~ Hilary Mantel
I felt exhausted, and worried, and friendless and hopeless and everything-else-less.
~ Philip Pullman
petrified morsels hacked out of living pain
~ Margery Allingham
They haven't made a drug that can touch this pain," Clarence said. "I feel like I'm made of pain.
~ Unknown