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Quotes About Anguish

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.
~ Shalom Auslander
[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.
~ L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
mnY reason of b"kup, but it hurts moRe when you don"t know evN a single-1.
~ Sumit Ð choudhary c2
Every man has his secret sorrows.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes pus Sometimes a poem. Something always burst out. And always pain.
~ Yehuda Amichai
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The unspeakable is a wound that stays open always, always, and forever.
~ Yiyun Li
I fear no farther hell than that I feel.
~ young edward ii
Those immediately behind number 50 were anguish personified. They let loose an endless stream of foul language and it was hard to tell whether they were cursing themselves or cursing something else. My neighbours and I in the last third of the queue only felt a pang of disappointment whereas those who just missed out on the coupon were like people who see the duck that they had cooked flap its wings and fly away.
~ Yu Hua
Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.
~ Yukio Mishima
The more significance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suffer
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
~ zelazny roger ii
The utterly empty bottle of his soul.
~ Deb Olin Unferth
Murder: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as "the unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially with malice aforethought." The mother of a murdered child has a different definition: "The blackest hell accompanied by a pain so intense that even breathing becomes an unendurable labor." I know; I am the mother of a murdered child.
~ Deborah Spungen
Sometimes I trembled From the horror of my abyss.
~ Delmira Agustini
In his throat was the bitterness of morning.
~ Denys Johnson-Davies
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
~ Mason Cooley
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.
~ Sadegh Hedayat
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
~ Kalidasa
Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.
~ Ronnie Radke
The pointlessness of that, the pressure of that, almost got to me again. The waste of it all.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
my insides feeling eviscerated
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The way back was harder, and no getting around that-no truth I learned struggling back, except that life is struggle. It placed me in some gray realm beyond, a landscape of exertion and anguish. I had nothing left to give, and yet still I had something left it give.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides