Anguish Quotes - Page 11

• If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?

  Kabir

  Love, Laughing, Suffering

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.

  Jerome Stern

  Distance, Character, Writing

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• I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Giving, Special

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• Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fate, Exercise, Men

  The Rambler, No 85, January 8, 1751.

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• You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love You, Goal, Effort

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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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• For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of ​​transition was always something that at the moment transcends imagination, seemingly absolutely insurmountable, so absurd in terms of the Himalayan conditions that up beautiful.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Climbing, Ideas

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• Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

  Samuel Pepys

  Differences, Mind, Age

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1983). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion”, p.259, Univ of California Press

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• Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Anger, Emotional, Soul

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• I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: it is the cry for peace!

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Voice, People

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• Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Encounters, Add, Nerves

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

  Langdon Brown Gilkey

  Men, Poetry, Unhappy

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• I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Israel, Years

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• To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Struggle

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Son, Order

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• People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

  William Faulkner

  Strong, Children, Men

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

  Georges Bataille

  Inspirational, Art, Delight

  Georges Bataille (2014). “Inner Experience”, p.40, SUNY Press

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• In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Sweat, Rose

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (1884). “Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians of North America”

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• Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to one another in the context of religious worship. As it is now our services are so antiseptic and sterile that people gathering for worship relate to others at only the most superficial level, and hardly ever get to know one another. . . . Maybe that is one of the reasons why people feel religion is irrelevant, because they cannot find support and solace during times of crisis and pain. That is when real religion should be at its best.

  Joseph Girzone

  Dream, Religious, Hurt

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• We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

  Che Guevara

  Humanity, Overcoming, Moments

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Pain, Mind, Praying

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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• So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

  John Ringo

  Guilt, Politics, Starting

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• Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Needs, World

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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