Quotes About Anguish

That hurt querida, that really hurt

As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don't COME that way. You have to TRAIN them. Too tiresome. I can understand your anguish.

Dying would have been so much easier.

Damn him, damn him, damn him.

This was the nightmare that had plagued her for months...the same despair that washed over her now. She was losing him.

So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack

Mimi collapsed to the ground, as if her heart had imploded in her chest.

Todo eso era poco: la verdadera condena era no ser sumergido inmediatamente en las lagunas de sangre del séptimo círculo; era no sufrir los dardazos de los centauros cada vez que quisiera erguirse. La condena era ser joven y estar vivo, y no poder morir ni amar, en esas tierras de nadie.

It was then that the Boy went through his darkest hell of all: the long ache of his body, acute as it was, was yet forgotten or disposed of in some way, for he was filled with a disembodied pain, an illness so penetrating, so horrible, that had he been given the opportunity to die he would have taken it. No normal sensation could find a way through this overpowering nausea of the soul that filled him.

Keda,' she said to herself,' Keda, this is tragedy.' But as her words hung emptily in the morning air, she clenched her hands for she could feel no anguish and the bright bird that had filled her breast was still singing... was still singing.

Ici la boue est faite de nos pleurs !

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition.

Odi at amo, excrucior

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused metaphysical anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act. It was very bad for everyone. The Tribe started to produce toxins that poisoned it. Its long-term survival was more important than short-term knowledge of the truth. If an eye had seen something that the brain knew was dangerous for the rest of the organism, it was better for the brain to put out that eye.

The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infinite.

Something of the same strain and anguish seems to have entered the soul of ivilised man. He knows there is something better than himself almost within his grasp, yet he does not know where to seek it or how to find it. In despair he rages against his fellow man, who is equally lost and equally unhappy.

In all their suffering, He suffered, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. Isaiah 63:9

The world is sick.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at least, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

an unbearable heaviness came over me.