Quotes About Anguish

For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive.

It is a troubled soul that forces the human being to act. It is some kind of gangrene within you, inside of you, that eats your soul, that forces you to save your soul.

Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the suffering of other human beings.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins in love and ends with grief.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. But there are other anguishes, many others. They unfold as they will, and to dwell within them is to understand nothing.

The dead are ever refashioned, for they have no defence against those who would use or abuse them – who they were, what their deeds meant. And this was the anguish…this…injustice.

You – you . . .' Her words were drowned out in a flood of pain rising up within her, an anguish more thorough in shattering her than anything she'd yet suffered. She staggered back a step. Baudin's small, flat eyes held steady on her. Heboric cleared his throat. 'We'd best hurry.

You weep for this, Trull Sengar, because your love has not been answered, and there is no greater anguish than that.

But I understand, now, that the cold and darkness were within me, death's own touch upon my soul.

Udinaas could not decide which of the two was the more pathetic. Seeing them, as he did now, they both broke his heart, and there seemed no way to distinguish between the two. As if grief had flavours .

Pain lanced through her thighs.

The day he had been Shorn by his brother, it had seemed to him that his heart had died. Chained to stone, awaiting the cold water and the rot that it promised, the muscle that forged the tides of his blood seemed to beat on in some kind of waning inertia.

Pain was not a pleasant thing to live with, not day after day, night upon night, not with every damned breath.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

There is a despair that goes deeper than existence; it runs to the marrow of consciousness, to the seat of the soul.

Med näsduken pressad mot ett öga i taget gråter han av tomhet, gråter och gråter, ty tomheten har fler tårar än någonting annat.