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Quotes About Anguish

Many years later, standing before a human head preserved in a jar of gin, Eliza would remember that first meeting with Joaquín Andieta and again experience the same unbearable anguish.
~ Isabel Allende
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
~ Brenda Ueland
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Cowley
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
~ P. J. Bailey
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.
~ Lord Byron
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear.
~ Bible
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
~ Robert Schumann
My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!
~ Gaston Gaudio
You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.
~ Terry McMillan
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
~ Jodi Picoult
Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.
~ Lee Nichols
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.
~ Rose O'Neal Greenhow
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
~ Ernie Pyle
The war has ruined us for everything.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
There are strange hells within the minds war made.
~ Ivor Gurney
in his chest, his heart seeped. It wasn`t blood that escaped - that had been shed long ago - but a thick, bile-like fluid that ran through veins that had become rivers of pain carrying a bottomless cargo of grief.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
She was killing him and doing it so gleefully. He
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I felt dead and sick inside.
~ Susan Hill
wailed when she'd
~ Susan McBride
The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.
~ Suzanne Collins
Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.
~ Suzanne Collins
I've stopped talking because there's really nothing left to say and there's this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I'm even having a heart attack, but it doesn't seem worth mentioning.
~ Suzanne Collins
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
~ Suzanne Collins