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Quotes About Anguish

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.
~ John Steinbeck
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.
~ John Steinbeck
She shook her head slowly from side to side. "I'm jus' pain covered with skin.
~ John Steinbeck
Over and over I thought we lack the pressures that make men strong and the anguish that makes men great. The pressures are debts, the desires are for more material toys and the anguish is boredom. Through time, the nation has become a discontented land.
~ John Steinbeck
Midesinin hemen üstünde bir aÄŸr? vard?, tekinsiz bir düÅŸünceyi and?ran bir endiÅŸe. Weltschmerz (Welshrats derdik eskiden), yani dünyan?n kederiydi: Bir gaz gibi yükselerek ruha nüfuz eder, umutsuzluk yayar, öyle ki, neden kaynakland???n? arar, bulamaz insan.
~ John Steinbeck
My family worry for me because I'm gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.
~ Brad Pitt
I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.
~ Unknown
Shit. Shit. Shit. He'd known he couldn't save her. He'd known he was too far away. Knowing didn't prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.
~ Unknown
I think you should be punished for tormenting me for so long.
~ Unknown
I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.
~ L.A. Meyer
Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
~ Ivo Andric
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
~ John Milton
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.
~ William Saroyan
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
~ Woody Allen
This can't be life.
~ Kanye West
Im being serious when I say I cant handle being this upset anymore. Its an everyday thing that doesnt go away.
~ Unknown
For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture,
~ Marcel Proust
But above all my anguish was incomparably stronger this time, for many reasons, of which the most important was not perhaps that I had never tasted sensual pleasure with Mme de Guermantes or with Gilberte, but that since I did not see them every hour of every day and had no opportunity, and consequently experienced no need, to do so, my love for them lacked the all-powerful element of Habit.
~ Marcel Proust
A calma que resultava de minhas angústias findas dava-me uma alegria extraordinária, não menos que a espera, a sede e o medo do perigo.
~ Marcel Proust
Pode-se ter inclinação por uma pessoa. Mas para desencadear essa tristeza, esse sentimento do irreparável, essas angústias, que preparam o amor, é preciso - e talvez isso e não a pessoa amada seja o ansiado objeto da paixão - o risco de uma impossibilidade.
~ Marcel Proust
anguish the actual cessation of which was so agreeable that it might even be called a state of happiness.
~ Marcel Proust
Having a liking for someone is one thing; but to be afflicted with the sadness, the feeling of something irreparable having happened, the anguish which all accompany the onset of love, what is necessary is the risk – which may even be the object to which passion in its fretfulness tries to cling, rather than to a person – of an impossibility.
~ Marcel Proust
I had not yet reached this stage. At one time it was my memory made more clear by some intellectual excitement — such as reading a book — which revived my grief, at other times it was on the contrary my grief — when it was aroused, for instance, by the anguish of a spell of stormy weather — which raised higher, brought nearer to the light, some memory of our love.
~ Marcel Proust
petrified morsels hacked out of living pain
~ Margery Allingham