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Quotes About Anguish

It's wrong that this is required of you. It's wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.
~ Cheryl Strayed
He had no words for it, what made him, what pained him, what rocked him and fucked him.
~ Cheryl Strayed
...all my soul within me burning...
~ Edgar A. Poe, "The Raven"
What anguish gushes from the heart The quivering lip will tell, When "two fond souls" are call'd to part And far from each other dwell.
~ Samuel Woodhull, 1851
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
~ Harlan Coben
was able to see God not as the source of our anguish but as the source of our ability to cope with it, to love and to comfort and to enjoy and ultimately to grieve for a very special child.
~ Harold S. Kushner
When a heavy weight presses the soul to the lowest level at which endurance is possible, there is an instant and desperate effort of every physical and moral nerve to throw off the weight; and hence the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Tom drew near, and tried to say something; but she only groaned. Honestly, and with tears running down his own cheeks, he spoke of a heart of love in the skies, of a pitying Jesus, and an eternal home; but the ear was deaf with anguish, and the palsied heart could not feel.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Patience! patience! ye whose hearts swell indignant at wrongs like these. Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed, is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows, the Lord of Glory. In his patient, generous bosom he bears the anguish of a world. Bear thou, like him, in patience, and labor in love; for sure as he is God, "the year of his redeemed shall come.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Patience! patience! ye whose hearts swell indignant at wrongs like these. Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed, is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows, the Lord of Glory. In his patient, generous bosom he bears the anguish of a world. Bear thou, like him, in patience, and labor in love; for sure as he is God, "the year of his redeemed shall come.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.
~ Harriet Brown
I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.
~ Harvey Pekar
She wasn't dead, but she was in hell. He'll on earth.
~ Heather Graham
She wasn't dead, but she was in hell. Hell on earth.
~ Heather Graham
Anyone to whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart. —Ludwig Wittgenstein
~ Heather King
Why, if we feel anguish at the death of over 300 law enforcement officers in the attacks against America on September 11, 2001, do we seek actions in police officers that are less decisive and vigorous in dealing with locally threatening circumstances-thereby placing both the officer and the subject of the police response at much greater risk?
~ Lawrence N. Blum
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
~ le carre john iv
If we love our Lord, not just admire him or fear him or want things from him, we must recognize his feelings; he must be in anguish over our sins.
~ Lee Min-jin
Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.
~ Leif Enger (Author)
In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
~ Lemony Snicket
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
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be—the tragedy of the bedroom.
~ Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Svaki pogled njenih o?iju, svaku re? iz njenih usta želim da imam samo za sebe. To što ne mogu da se odvojim od nje, to što ne mogu da ustanem i zauvek završim s time! To boli, to gori u meni!" "Ali demonima pakla je data sva mo?, nastupio je dan, poslednji dan, sudnji dan, sotona trijumfuje nad grešnom dušom, i jadikuju?i ljudski glas se ruši sa visine i tone u Judinom smehu o?ajanja.
~ Leo Perutz