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Quotes About Anguish

Kill me. If you've ever been my friend, kill me. Please Tommy. Please
~ James Dashner The Death Cure
You're tearing me apart!
~ James Dean
From ibogaine (a plant from West Africa) helping people overcome cocaine and heroin addiction, to MDMA (ecstasy, ADAM, X, and many other names) alleviating the torments and healing the wounds of posttraumatic stress (along with supportive therapy), to psilocybin reducing the anxiety of patients with advanced-stage cancer, there is ample evidence that, wisely administered, these substances lessen the suffering caused by addiction, disease, and mental anguish.
~ James Fadiman
John: "Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!" Richard: "Let's strike a flint and see.
~ James Goldman
I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
~ James Patterson
I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead
~ James Shapiro
the fuck-up from which I would never recover.
~ Donna Tartt
But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.
~ Donna Tartt
Inside she was dissolving in horror at them both, at how far they had both sunk from honesty of emotion.
~ Doris Lessing
I was most upset to hear of its destruction.
~ Douglas Adams
Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow!
~ Aeschylus
It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.
~ Agatha Christie
His hands were shaking and his face was twitching. He looked a wreck of a man.
~ Agatha Christie
An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have
~ Alan Brennert
my venturings had become desperate searches for the sustenance of torment.
~ Alan Wykes
The greatest evil is physical pain.
~ Saint Augustine
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
~ Bill McKibben
No penance could be more terrible than this. Her very heart was dead.
~ Rachel Hartman
My heart is pulverized, and I wanna cry.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
I used to sit and cry and hold a loaded gun up to my head but I chose a slower way of being dead
~ Raegan Butcher
Ah! What have you done to yourself my love, asked he. Don't dare to ask! For its your absence that resulted in such despair, said she. Is there any way, I can end this pain and anguish, asked he. Yes, my dear! Seal my lips with no delay, said she with quivering voice. So as you please, my love, followed he.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Ah! What have you done to yourself my love, asked he. Don't dare to ask! For its your absence that resulted in such despair, said she. Is there any way, I can end this pain and anguish, asked he. Yes, my dear! Seal my lips with no delay, whispered she with quivering voice. So as you please, my love, followed he."
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
The dreams are not torture. They often begin with an elation unlike any I have experience in life. The anguish comes on as I feel this happiness receding, and I struggle to keep it, and lost it, and grieve. Whether I weep openly each time, I don't know. But then I didn't know before how much I might show to anyone who saw me when these dreams take me.
~ Randall Wallace
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar; A moment terrible to hear.
~ Ray Douglas Bradbury