Quotes About Anguish

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.

It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.

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

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Breaking up is hard to do. It's torture.

'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.

I'm tortured because I care.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Men so sick they are dying of death.

Something had happened to that sorrow. It had gone rancid in him, he thought; it had boiled down to something he didn't understand. The pith of sorrow was in the upshot a little seed of death.

My head is already stuffed with grief I suppose like a pomegranate with its red seeds. I can only bleed grief, having no room for more.

You are the love of my life, Elizabeth Bennet. So I ask you now…" A brief pause separates these words from his next. "Half in anguish… half in hope…" He ends his speech with the glorious words Lizzy has been wishing to hear spoken from Fitzwilliam Darcy, "Will you do me the great honor of taking me for your husband?" Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this—that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.

I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

How generous is dance, it barters your moments of anguish and gifts you joy equal to lifetimes

It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made the sudden absence of it all so agonizing… Not the agony of what was, but the agony of what was no longer; this was the source of all life's pain--not the fear of a hell to come, but rather the knowledge of an Eden that is no more. Hell isn't the punishment… Eden was.

the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

such a brutal way of killing someone that it gave birth to the word "excruciating.