Quotes About Anguish

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

Every man is his own hell.

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.

You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead.

When you were here before Couldn't look you in the eye You're just like an angel Your skin makes me cry

One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Good," he said, hoping and praying that a bolt of lightning would suddenly shoot from the heavens and kill him on the spot.