Quotes About Anguish

and I'd die of his emptiness even more than I'm dying of my own.

When they come... they come at what you love.

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

And it was exactly like having flu that time because I wanted it to stop, like you can just pull the plug of a computer out of the wall if it crashes, because I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn't go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and hurt.

Life is, of course, terrible.

The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.

Not only are mortals rotten, the very atmosphere in which we live is materially and physically rotten, swarming with maggots, with obscene appearances, poisonous minds, and foul organisms.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

faded daily. Sometimes she suffered much pain from the canker

De onzekerheid maakt me gek. Alles is onzeker. Er is geen houvast. En daardoor wordt ook het denken onzeker, mijn gedachten zijn een hel. Alleen de dood is zeker. Alleen de dood kan mijn gedachten stopzetten. Daarom wil ik dood. Op dat soort momenten.' 'Het is een illusie te denken dat de dood een oplossing is.' 'Die illusie is op dit soort momenten aangenamer dan het leven.

Seth envied them that freedom as his naked body hung lankly from the ceiling, with his hands shackled over his head. He'd been in this position for so long that his wrist bones protruded through the open cuts the manacles had worn through his flesh. He was sure it had to hurt, but that pain blended in nicely with all the others so that he couldn't tell where one ache began and another throb ended. Who knew torture could have benefits?

His hatred for the world was carved into his heart.

They saw me at once, and I thought of them rotting away and curling in pain and crying out loud; I wanted them doubled up and crying on the ground in front of me.

Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, 'Ma fia! Ma fia!

I wasn't just seasick; I was undone in sorrow.

Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmica.

I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: "I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?

Before me lies a gaping void. And the anguish comes into its own, alone in the void, beyond the vanished things. I am alone. I am that anguish which exists alone, in spite of me; I am merged with that blind existence. In spite of me and yet issuing only from myself. Refuse to exist: I exist. Decide to exist: I exist. Refuse, decide. I exist. There will be dawn.

E pesando na terra todo o meu peso imóvel. Tu morres. Outros agonizam lentamente, corpos cheios de golpes, a pele colada aos ossos.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.