Quotes About Anguish

How can one be well when one suffers morally? Is it possible to remain at ease in our time, if one has any feeling?

It was as if the working of his head had stripped the main screw that held his life together. The screw wouldn't go in or come out; it just turned without biting on anything, always in the same hole, and he couldn't stop it turning.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

How could I write this when I don't even dare think about it? I am terribly anguished, yet I cannot continue living alone with such a memory...I know that once this has been written down, I shall be delivered. You must know, otherwise I shall be persecuted to the end of my living days. But shall I be able to express with mere words the horror of that day?

There was no remedy for the needle in my heart with its long thread of old blood.

No has más corona de espinas que los recuerdos que se clavan en la carne y hacen aullar como aullaban en el Gólgota los dos ladrones.

You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.

Oh, God!' he groaned. 'God help me!

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

until sunlight came bleeding up over the horizon, like more acid blood oozing out of his sick ruptured heart, which felt - not that anybody cared - like a rotten drum of biohazardous waste at the very bottom of a landfill, leaching poison into the groundwater, enough poison to kill an entire suburb full of innocent and unsuspecting children.

Sempre a mesma coisa. Ora uma gota de esperança que cintila, depois um mar de desespero que se desencadeia, e sempre a dor, sempre a dor, sempre o desespero, sempre a mesma coisa.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul.

A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, 'Might as well numb the anguish.' If you're using something to escape reality, then it's something you need to address.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

This was more than death, it was the heart's death.

I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, no matter what I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core.

Canturrea para no pensar, padece como una avara, a veces desea sufrir un buen golpe, hundirse en la desesperación

L'angoisse humaine n'est pas quantifiable, elle n'est pas un élément de l'analyse macroéconomique. N'étant pas mesurable, elle n'existe pas pour le FMI