Quotes About Anguish

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

I wish I could break into pieces," I told him one night, just a week after I'd come back. "That would feel better somehow. Isn't the worst when you can keep on walking and breathing and writing letters and going to the market and all the things you do when you're alive, but really you're blown apart?

Discovering himself to be an oppressor may cause considerable anguish, but it does not necessarily lead to solidarity with the oppressed. Rationalizing his guilt through paternalistic treatment of the oppressed, all the while holding them fast in a position of dependence, will not do. Solidarity requires that one enter into the situation of those with whom one is solidary; it is a radical posture.

Ow. Ow. That hurt. Ack.. I'm dead.

The worst thing I do is to exist. When I think of that I understand A human's greatest crime is to be born!

I failed him. He needed me and I failed him. God, Roger, how am I going to bear this, what am I going to do?

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Implacable hate, patient cunning, and a sleepless refinement of device to inflict the extremest anguish on an enemy, these things are evil; and, although venial in a slave are not to be forgiven in a tyrant; although

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Guilt brings condemnation and fear brings torment.

Recently, a young Iraq veteran took issue with calling his combat anguish PTSD and, instead, poignantly referred to his pain and suffering as PTSI—the "I" designating "injury." What he wisely discerned is that trauma is an injury, not a disorder like diabetes, which can be managed but not healed. In contrast, posttraumatic stress injury is an emotional wound, amenable to healing attention and transformation.

They haven't made a drug that can touch this pain," Clarence said. "I feel like I'm made of pain.

I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.

There are mornings when it feels as if you rise up to the surface through a mud bath. With your feet stuck in a block of cement. When you know that you've expired in the night and have nothing to be happy about except the fact that at least you've already died so they can't transplant your lifeless organs.

a mournful of stained, crooked teem,

Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.

This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.