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Quotes About Anguish

The feeling of pain resembles the anguished, troubled height of convulsions, and suffering-the long and the slow kind-has the intimate yellow which colours the vague bliss of profoundly felt convalescence.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It could have been any number of things: hardship, grief or simply the suffering born of the indifference that comes from having suffered too much.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Beside my pain, all other pains seem false or insignificant. They are the pains of happy people or of people who are alive enough to complain. Mine is the pain of someone imprisoned in life, cut off …
~ Fernando Pessoa
There are dreamed anguishes that are more real Than the ones life brings us, there are sensations Felt only by imagining Which are more ours than our own life is. There's so often a thing which, not existing, Does exist, exists lingeringly And lingeringly is ours and us…
~ Fernando Pessoa
I have an anguished, painful need to speak with you.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Oh odio, alégrame siquiera tú Hazme ver a la muerte royéndolos a todos
~ Fernando Pessoa
I don't complain about the horrors of life. I complain only about the horrors of my life. The only important fact for me is the fact that I exist and that I suffer and cannot entirely dream myself out of feeling that suffering.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A vida pode ser sentida como uma náusea no estômago, a existência da própria alma como um incômodo dos músculos. A desolação do espírito, quando agudamente sentida, faz marés, de longe, no corpo, e dói por delegação.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We were born into the midst of metaphysical anguish, moral anxiety and political disquietude
~ Fernando Pessoa
Oggi la mia anima è triste fino al corpo. Tutto me stesso mi duole: la memoria, gli occhi, le braccia.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ah! the anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout, The bleeding of my heart!
~ Fernando Pessoa
It requires prodigious intelligence to be reduced to anguish by a day of lowering skies.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It's as if someone were using my life to beat me with.
~ Fernando Pessoa
So many times, so many, like now, it has oppressed me to feel myself feel – to feel anguish just because it's a feeling, restlessness because I'm here, nostalgia for something I've never known, the sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external selfawareness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Great suffering can give us the illusion of being Pain's Chosen One.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A alma humana é vítima tão inevitável da dor
~ Fernando Pessoa
The great anguishes of the soul always come upon us like cosmic cataclysms. When they do, the sun errs from its course and the stars are troubled. A day will come to every feeling soul when Fate stages an apocalypse of anguish, an upturning of all known heavens and universes over the soul's desolation.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The restless anguish of regrets, The weariness caused by so much futility, The surfeit even of imagined things
~ Fernando Pessoa
The meanest bloody thing in hell made this world.
~ Flann O'Brien
I'm an ardent tennis player. I'm like an overenthusiastic child out there and I've damaged my back. It's not that it's crippling pain, more mental anguish.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
~ Honore de Balzac
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
~ Gary Bettman
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
There are some farmers who have been terribly discriminated against by the USDA. They've suffered tremendous losses and pain and anguish, and they deserve to be compensated.
~ Mike Espy