Quotes About Anguish

It was a constant agony, consuming and debilitating as a toothache.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

You nights of anguish. Why didn't I kneel more deeply to accept you, Inconsolable sisters, and, surrendering, lose myself in your loosened hair. How we squander our hours of pain. How we gaze beyond them into the bitter duration To see if they have an end. Though they are really Seasons of us, our winter …

In every twenty-four hours there is always one which is full of anguish and self-pity and confusion and the desire to see other faces, but an hour passes quickly enough.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach

After college, I went through my own shit and decided that all physical suffering in the world couldn't compare to mental anguish. And when I got myself, I decided to help other people.

It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.

Life is a nightmare

Heaven has no taste. Now- And not one single sushi restaurant. A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

Our bodies continue to lament With their mutilated music.

I curse the day I found God. My life has been a misery ever since.

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

La religion est, aux yeux de Lucrèce, une superstition qui plonge les hommes dans l'angoisse et le désespoir. La philosophie, elle, a une fonction libératrice.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?

He made her want to cry. She was no one's miracle. More like their nightmare.

Despair is something horribly simple.

Hell and confusion light upon their heads.