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Quotes About Anguish

I pity your poor bleeding heart
~ Bram Stoker
I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, and I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.
~ Bram Stoker
She had never dreamed that in fulfilling her love for Tyrell she would so hurt her parents. She had never seen Papa so anguished before.
~ Brenda Joyce
My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
~ Bret Easton Ellis
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Mi dolor es constante e intenso y no espero que haya un mundo mejor para nadie. De hecho quiero que mi dolor le sea inflingido a otros.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
When I flush the toilet in my bathroom, it becomes stopped up with Kleenex, and blood clouds the water and I put down the lid, because there's nothing else for me to do.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!
~ Brian Herbert
The barn by the Roulette house was jammed with wounded men. Screams, prayers, and curses made it a horrible place, with hundreds of anguished men packed together on the straw begging the surgeons to attend to them—surgeons bare-armed and fearsomely streaked and spattered with blood, piles of severed arms and legs lying by the slippery operating tables, the uproar of the battle beating in through the thin walls.
~ Bruce Catton
The imagination is always the best torturer.
~ Bryce Courtenay
There's no light, no up or down, no possibility of movement, no anything. There's nothing, forever, with no way out. I felt such terror.
~ Byron Katie
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
~ Camille Paglia
Sloan wondered if newspapers weren't a little hypocritical, demanding one standard for others and another for themselves; he doubted that reporters had any idea of the anguish they could inflict with only one sentence
~ Carl Bernstein
When [faith] healers treat serious organic disease, they are responsible for untold anguish and unhappiness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The healers become killers.
~ Carl Sagan
I'd rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains - than go back mornings! I go! Every time you come in yelling that Goddamn Rise and Shine! Rise and Shine! I say to myself, How lucky dead people are!
~ Tennessee Williams
the past was so painful at any point. It seared and burned.
~ Theodore Dreiser
My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely swung. An epic of the eyes My love, with no disguise. My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I'm naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare. The anger will endure, The deed will speak the truth In language strict and pure. I stop the lying mouth: Rage warps my clearest cry To witless agony.
~ Theodore Roethke
OPEN HOUSE My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely swung. An epic of the eyes My love, with no disguise. My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I'm naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare. The anger will endure, The deed will speak the truth In language strict and pure. I stop the lying mouth: Rage warps my clearest cry To witless agony.
~ Theodore Roethke
Much of poetry is an anguished waiting." — Theodore Roethke
~ Theodore Roethke
The guy appeared to be on the verge of tears. "Zere is no more bread," he confessed tragically, like someone admitting witchcraft to the Inquisition.
~ Karen Chance
Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.
~ Karen Cushman
Just die. It'll end everyone's misery, including your own.
~ Karen Marie Moning