Quotes About Anguish

right at this moment, I cannot imagine it being any worse right here, I have been turned into nothing right now, I am negated

This can't be happenning! Please help me! Please!

Free will, she agreed, our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Dogs' lives are short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt.

Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Doubt is useful for awhile. We must all pass through the garden of Gesthemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Su angustia no era común a todas las mujeres en el acto de la entrega. Y con ella ocurrió solamente en aquella única vez. El hilo de plata estaba cortado, la taza de oro destruida.

I wonder what sound a breaking heart makes?

I was fourteen: the world was pain.

The weird cedars, like great demons and witches chained to the rock and writhing in silent anguish, loomed up with wide and twisting naked arms.

Her expression suggested the kind of deeply private, strictly incommunicable anguish of someone who has just slammed the car door on her thumb.

Sorrow dogged by sorrow is in mah heart.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

Great pain, therefore, pain that arises to anguish, should be suffering so deadly, that past, present, and future are alike included in its grip, and no part of life is left sound and whole. Never afterwards can we think the same thoughts as before. Anguish engraves itself in ineffaceable characters on mouth and brow; it passes through us, destroying or relaxing the springs that vibrate to enjoyment, leaving behind in the soul the seeds of a disgust for all things in this world.

She rolled over, giving a cry that froze my heart; and I saw her dying, still looking at me without anger.

they have tortured me for my sin of affection.

Anger is a brief madness.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow

en vez de agotarme en una defensa angustiosa y a toda costa contra lo que sentía, como deben de haber hecho todos, y aún los marineros sin darse cuenta, acepté sencillamente esa muerte hipnótica, como si estuviese anulado ya.

Abusaba de la morfina, por angustiosa necesidad y por elegancia. Tenía treinta y siete años; era alta, con labios muy gruesos y encendidos, que humedecía sin cesar.

I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds