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Quotes About Anguish

She glanced down the hallway, but Angie didn't want to go into the bedrooms. She didn't want to see where Michael screwed his wife, know that this was the place where he probably beat Gina. Had
~ Karin Slaughter
She had felt this intense disembodiment for the last four days, really from the moment the Snake Man had told them to turn around. And then the police, the undertaker, asking if she wanted to see the body one last time and Claire blanching at the word body and sobbing like a child because she had spent every single second since they had taken Paul from her arms trying to remove the image of her lifeless, murdered husband from her mind.
~ Karin Slaughter
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
~ Karl Marx
but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.
~ Kate Atkinson
Fine,' she said, using the universal Scottish word for every state of being from 'I'm dying in anguish' to 'I'm experiencing euphoric joy.' 'Fine,' she said. 'I'm fine.
~ Kate Atkinson
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
~ Ishmael
What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
~ Martial
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
~ Victor Hugo
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
~ William Shakespeare
There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
~ Marquis de Sade
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
~ George S. Patton
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
~ Edward Young
The life of men is painful.
~ Euripides
It really expresses a man in pain.
~ Mark Hoppus
It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe
~ Ray Bradbury
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown.
~ Jessica Powers
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
~ Samuel Beckett
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head
~ Edvard Munch
I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
~ Pat Conroy