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Quotes About Anguish

Uneltele mele de lucru sunt umilin?a ?i angoasa; Ce n-a? da s? m? fi n?scut mort!
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
~ Joseph Addison
In the afterlife, the pain that kills here no doubt continues.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Because I have called and you refused, 24 I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, Because you disdained all my counsel, 25 And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; 26 I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, 27 And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Proverbs 1:23-27
~ Joseph Campbell
My heart, have you know wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, why have you left me alone?
~ A. Norman Jeffares
All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.
~ A. S. Neill
This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
~ Aberjhani
A mighty pain to love it is,And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Cowley
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Crowley
put on the white dress that you had once said made you look like an angel with its real swan feathers and fools gold. Then I sat for a long time in the night and waited. At dawn, I woke with feathers sticky on my tongue and I remembered you were dead all over again.
~ Ada Limón
There is the great and glorious fact, that God has indeed spoken; that He who made the heart has had first entrance to it; that He has spoken first; that, as in a palimpsest, deep, deep below all the writing of doubt and unbelief is the writing of God, and shall remain there, either in an eternity of blessedness or anguish. When
~ Adolph Saphir
I do worship ancient hungers and chains dripping blood, but I am so tired of the taste of my heart.
~ Adrian C. Louis
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
~ Doris Lessing
This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.
~ Richard Schickel
Vegheaz? umbr?-a ??rnii,umbr? ca de iad, deschi?i tu ochi-mi legi cu lan? de fier...?i cad în pat p?truns de mii de suli?i în m?nunchi... ?i ca s?-mi pot goni durerea- vino,moarte... Ha,moarte,port la ??rmul viselor de?arte, îngroap?-m suferin?a rogu-te-n genunchi...
~ Pierre Ronsard
I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.
~ Primo Levi
If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.
~ Primo Levi
tant elle souffrait en revenant. Et elle pleurait des jours entiers de chagrin, de désespoir et de détresse.
~ R De Roussy De Sales
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
~ R. Scott Bakker
true faith never comes without anguish.
~ R.L. LaFevers
that awful human type of sadness.
~ Rachel Cusk
As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.
~ James Nachtwey
Many nights I wake up not able to breathe. I think I'm in Guantanamo Bay. I'm crying and shouting and making it very hard for the people that are with me in the room to sleep.
~ Mohamedou Ould Slahi