Anguish Quotes - Page 13

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

Anne Enright

Blood, Nails, Needs

Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.228, Random House

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Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

Sarada Devi

Eye, Illumination, Giving

"Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda, August 31, 2004.

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That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Dark, Sacrifice, Self

Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint out horror in most hideous shapes: whil'st men unhors'd, horses unmast'red, stray'd, some call'd on those whom they most dearly lov'd, some rag'd, some groan'd, some sigh'd, roar'd, promis'd, pray'd, as blows, falls, faintness, pain, hope, anguish mov'd.

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

Horse, Pain, War

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...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.

Julius Evola

Love, Existential, Blind

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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

Jacqueline Carey

Comfort, World, Trouble

Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.815, Macmillan

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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 big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

Nick Cave

Song, Writing, Problem

"Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, music.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Leonard Cohen

Anxiety, Speak, Strategy

"Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Chrissie Hynde

Jealousy, Lust, Want

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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

Evgeny Morozov

Responsibility, Decision, Valleys

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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

John Berger

Grief, Loss, Childhood

John Berger (2011). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.122, Vintage

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

Victor Hugo

Running, Stars, Men

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God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Georges Bernanos

Hypocrisy, Failing, Mask

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...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Louise Bogan

Heart, Giving, Despair

Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

Michel de Montaigne

Slavery, Losing, Poor

Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.92, 谷月社

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But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

Georges Bataille

Tears, Rupture, Limits

Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.11, SUNY Press

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She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men, House, Asking

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My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Joy, Sorrow, Battle

Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

Richard M. Nixon

Pain, Regret, War

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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

William Godwin

Depression, Mind, Loathing

William Godwin (1831). “Caleb Williams”, p.347

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People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this country. If we ignore their cries for help, we will be continuing to participate in the anguish from which those cries for help come. A problem of this magnitude will not go away. Because it will not go away, and because of our spiritual commitments, we are compelled to take action.

Rosalynn Carter

Spiritual, Country, Commitment

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This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

David Brainerd

Morning, Prayer, Soul

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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Jose Saramago

Block, Writing, Creating

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In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair,
Will you still care? Will you be there?
In my trials and my tribulations,
Through our doubts and frustrations,
In my violence and my turbulence,
Through my fear and my confessions,
And my anguish and my pain,
Through my joy and my sorrow,
In the promise of another tomorrow,
I'll never let you part,
For you're always in my heart.

Michael Jackson

Pain, Heart, Frustration

"Song: 'Will You Be There'". 1993.

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