Quotes About Anguish

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

September 26, Newport went a little mad with grief. It was possibly,

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

He had so little experience, or so little capacity for real introspection, he didn't imagine the guilt and anguish lying in wait; he didn't even ask himself what Judith Biely might be feeling. She didn't exist for him in an autonomous, complete way but only as a projection of his own desire

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

Only the wound speaks its own word.

Preferisco l'angoscia ad una pace marcia, affermò lui, tra le due cose preferisco l'angoscia.

For thou hast made a very fiend of me, and I have hell within.

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers. I came to call this the "striver's curse": people who strive to be excellent at what they do often wind up finding their inevitable decline terrifying, their successes increasingly unsatisfying, and their relationships lacking.

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers.

Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it.

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!...

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.