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Quotes About Anguish

Romantic love is painful.
~ will.i.am
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
~ Euripides, Medea
Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.
~ Jacob Nordby
Moltes de nosaltres, va dir, ens eximim de la responsabilitat de canviar les coses aferrant-nos als sentiments del nostre passat. Llavors vivim amb llibertat, feliços, o si no som feliços del tot, almenys vivim sense una angoixa terrible.
~ Miriam Toews
Nos sentiremos angustiadas y apenadas, y sentiremos incertidumbre, y tristeza, pero no culpabilidad, dice Agata. Mariche corrige: Puede que nos sintamos culpables, pero sabremos que no lo somos Podríamos tener sentimientos homicidas, pero sabremos que no somos asesinas. Podríamos sentir sed de venganza, pero sabremos que no somos mapaches. Podríamos sentirnos perdidas, pero sabremos que no somos unas perdidas.
~ Miriam Toews
We will feel anguish and we will feel sorrow and we will feel uncertainty and we will feel sadness, but not guilt, says Agata. Mariche amends: We may feel guilty but we will know we are not guilty.
~ Miriam Toews
Demano un breu respir. L'Ona Friesen em torna a mirar encuriosida, potser el que la intriga és la idea d'un «respir» (de ben segur que és una paraula que no havia sentit mai, ni en una traducció), o potser l'encurioseix la idea d'un respir sostingut, l'exquisida angoixa del pensament no expressat, de la narració de la vida, del fil que lliga, que ferma, que reté. Un respir, un alè, sostinguts. La narrativa. Les dones me'l concedeixen.
~ Miriam Toews
It has always been a mystery to me ... how beauty and anguish can share the same moment
~ Mitch Albom
But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.
~ Mitch Albom
My mind disappears behind desperate terror.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I didn't need this much more to lose.
~ Naomi Novik
You're just setting yourself up for pain and anguish if you do something like that. But pain and anguish were everywhere anyway. Might as well put them to good use.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
I was incapable of writing or feeling anything except the terror of her absence, of knowing she was lost, wrenched away.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Se solo avessi riflettuto, avrei capito che quella dedizione assoluta era un'inesauribile fonte di pena; ma forse era proprio perché soffrivo tanto che la adoravo sempre di più, schiavo dell'eterna stupidaggine di stare dietro a chi ci fa del male.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.
~ Carole Mortimer
Listen to the sea...it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
As is our habit, he gave me only the patient's name and age and said nothing about the pain or his own suspicions. In my evaluation I saw that the right side of this patient's body, around the pancreas, was generating toxic energy. I told Norm that this man was burdened by an enormous feeling of responsibility and that it had become a constant source of anguish for him.
~ Caroline Myss
There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick.
~ Carson McCullers
Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
~ Carson McCullers
Frances wanted the whole world to die.
~ Carson McCullers
She felt such fury and pain she thought she'd choke on it.
~ Catherine Coulter
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
~ Cesare Pavese
And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of his life.
~ Chaim Potok
It was then that it came, though I think it had been coming for a long time and I had been choking it and hoping it would die. But it does not die. It kills you first. I knew there would be no other way to do it. No one says you have to paint ultimate anguish and torment. But if you are driven to paint it, you have no other way.
~ Chaim Potok