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Quotes About Anguish

The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My eyes must keep their sight: I dare not be tear-blinded. I must be free to talk Not choked with grief, clear-minded. My mouth cannot betray The anguish that I know. Yes, I'll keep my tears til later: But my grief will never go.
~ Anne McCaffrey
Don't leave me alone! A cry in the night, Of anguish heart-stiking, Of soul-killing fright. Live for my living Or else I must die Don't leave me alone. A world heard that cry.
~ Anne McCaffrey
But in our anguish-darkened land, let us draw close, and clasp the hand; our whispered password holds assuagement -- the solemn "Yea, I understand!"
~ ANNE REEVE ALDRICH
I am so tired of that old suffering.
~ Anne Sexton
Her screams, as always, were silent.
~ Annette Gisby
I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
~ Euripides
Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.
~ Euripides
AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.
~ Euripides
Terrible things breed in broken hearts. And I see in my mistress' eyes a fury that wont be calmed… It can't be long before her sorrow turns, as sorrow always does, into rage.
~ Euripides
Agaue was foaming at the mouth; her rolling eyes Were wild; she was not in her right mind, but possessed
~ Euripides
Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.
~ Euripides
Medea. Loathe on. . . . But, Oh, thy voice. It hurts me sore. Jason. Aye, and thine me. Wouldst hear me then no more?
~ Euripides
Such things accursed war brings in its train
~ Euripides
IPH. Thus much at least, does the wife of the unhappy man live? OR. She is no more. The son she brought forth, he slew her. IPH. O house all troubled! with what intent, then? [71] OR. Taking satisfaction on her for the death of his father. IPH. Alas! how well he executed an evil act of justice. [72] OR. But, though just, he hath not good fortune from the Gods.
~ Euripides
His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
~ Evelyn Waugh
From that moment, events rushed on with breath-taking speed. I spent the two and a half months until my arrest in tormented conflict between reason and the kind of foreboding which Lermontov called "prophetic anguish.
~ Evgenia Ginzburg
Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A pause; it endured horribly.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
My thu-umb!" explained Julie. "Oh-h-h-h, t'urts.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
pg.9 In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To consider our greatest anguish an incident of no importance, not just in terms of the life of the universe, but in terms of our own souls, is the beginning of knowledge.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.
~ Fernando Pessoa