Quotes About Anguish

There's more kinds of pain than just physical pain, you know.

Nothing helps. I'm a black spot on the chest X-ray of the universe.

qué genios tan torturados son. No me convence…

If you saw a wounded person, torn and mangled, on the highway, the sight of so deplorable an object would fill you with compassion; the sight of your friends under the disease I am now speaking ought to move you much more, for it is tearing them to pieces every moment. Every moment it preys upon their vitals, and they are continually dying, yet cannot die.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

Being poor is a little like having an earache over a Bank Holiday. All you can think about is the pain and how long it will be before a healing hand can be found to take away the anguish.

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

I wish I was super-serious, anguished. I see those actors, and I am like, 'Oh God, they are so cool, and they seem so interesting.' I don't take acting that seriously.

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what was dead was Hope.

He was prisoned in thought. Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.

I did not know it was such pain to die; I thought that life had taken all the agonies to itself.

The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It seemed to crush him.

but I, once a lord of language, have no words in which to express my anguish and my shame...

Out of my nature has come wild despair; an abandonment to grief that was piteous even to look at; terrible and impotent rage; bitterness and scorn; anguish that wept aloud; misery that could find no voice; sorrow that was dumb. I have passed through every possible mood of suffering. Better than Wordsworth himself I know what Wordsworth meant when he said—'Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark And has the nature of infinity.

As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.

I am dazed with a dull sense of pain. I had fed on hope, and now anguish, grown hungry, feeds her fill on me as though she had been starved of her proper appetite.

We meet from time to talk and argue…about what we as artists can do, how we can express the anguish for the moral situation we find in this country, but not as civil rights pleaders.

Apollo's handsome face twisted as another white-hot wave of pain pulsed up his arm. "It doesn't hurt like hell. It hurts like bloody buggering hell.

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

Longing that sliced my breast into pieces, it is time to take another road, on which she does not smile. Storm that buried the bells, muddy swirl of torments, why touch her now, why make her sad. Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.