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Quotes About Anguish

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
~ Georges Bernanos
Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits. I don't think many readers finishing a book ask themselves how many hours of anguish and domestic calamities those two hundred pages have cost the author or how much he received for his work …
~ Gerald Martin
I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?
~ Geraldine Brooks
Thou hast added insult to injury.
~ Phaedrus
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
~ Herodotus
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
~ Charles Lamb
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
~ Syrus
In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
~ James Drummond Burns
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
~ Bible
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
~ Matthew
The four most miserable years of my life . . .
~ John Adams
Kad bi se sakupila i ujedno sabrala li?na ose?anja gneva, protesta, ga?enja i ogor?enja sa kojima su ljudi pojedinci umrli, uzalud dozivaju?i pravdu i zaštitu - kad bi tako nešto bilo mogu?no - bila bi to velika snaga, divan prizor, i uteha ljudskom duhu zauvek. Nažalost, to je nezamislivo i neizvodljivo. Svak umire u tami i teskobi svoga o?ajavanja, a ve?ina sa ose?anjem uzaludnosti svojih najboljih težnja i napora.
~ Ivo Andri?
Bojao sam se i krvi koju sam ?uo kako bije u mom ru?nom zglobu jer me je uvjeravala da živim, a to je bilo isto što i patnja.
~ Ivo Andri?
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
~ Ivo Andric
I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy.
~ J.M. Coetzee
There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was PAIN -Vishous
~ J.R. Ward
I can't… I find that I can't concentrate. On anything. I can't really…" Rhage's eyes drifted to Zsadist. "How do you live with it? All the anger. The pain. The…
~ J.R. Ward
Fuuuuuuck......No'One....
~ J.R. Ward
You're just too mean to find a grave and lie down"-Tohr to Wrath.
~ J.R. Ward
Shh," he cut in. "No…talking. I can't…No talking.
~ J.R. Ward
This shit between them was killing them both, but they were stalled out. Unable to make things work; unable to let things go. It was a mess.
~ J.R. Ward