Anguish Quotes - Page 9

• It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

  George P. Bush

  Heart, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

  Gary Giddins

  Art, Joy, Jazz

  Source: bigthink.com

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• All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands. The universe, nobody understands my agony, or my questioning, and it's this shift in what in the world around us could possibly be meaningful or helpful.

  Phil Elvrum

  Meaningful, Book, World

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.

  Melissa Febos

  Song, Expression, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.

  Robert Runcie

  Adversity, Doe, Looks

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• I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Loss, Thinking

  "Bush: Leaving Iraq Now Would Be 'Mistake'". 'All Things Considered' with David Greene, www.npr.org. August 11, 2005.

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• My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level of anguish. They just create from a different place.

  Sharon Salzberg

  People, Creative, Different

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• I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.

  John Assaraf

  Hurt, Thinking, Forgiving

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he would do, where he would be, who he would be. And it's sort of interesting because Eleanor Roosevelt never writes about her mother's agony. She only writes about her father's agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Pain, Father

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've met with some of their families. I've seen their anguish, how they ache for their sons and husbands. I gave these families my word. I made a vow that we would do everything in our power to win the release of their loved ones, and we have been tireless.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Home, Son

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction of lives and hopes, the emotional trauma, and the economic, social, and political marginalization of the displaced, the human insecurity, with real and potentially devastating consequences over generations, in ever-widening arenas of conflict. We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Real, Emotional, Rights

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• I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself.

  Tasha Smith

  Abuse, Trying, Made

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Betrayal, People, Survival

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

  Jason Alexander

  Baby, Numbers, Despair

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• As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

  John Sandford

  Hurt, Pain, Garden

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• To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

  Amy Grant

  Thinking, Doe, Bittersweet

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• The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

  Peter King

  Zero, Practice, People

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• The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

  Edgar Morin

  Destiny, Men, Life And Death

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• Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Death, Children, War

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.46

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• I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

  May Sarton

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Writing, Sides

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A Change of Perspective”, Chatto & Windus

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• I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Pain, Italian

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friends

  Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd (2003). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.299, Courier Corporation

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• The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

  Cesare Pavese

  Pain, Men, Feelings

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

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• O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

  George Eliot

  Regret, Grief, Affection

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3571, Delphi Classics

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