Anguish Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

  Paul Rudd

  Cutting, Behinds

  "Everybody Loves Rudd" by Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pain, Winning, Men

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• My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

  Theodore Roethke

  Self, Naked, Shields

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.17, Anchor

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• We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Gains, Habit, Accepting

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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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• The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

  Damon Lindelof

  Years, Feelings, Doubt

  "'Star Trek's' Damon Lindelof on Brad Pitt, Having Power as a Writer and His Agony Over 'Lost'" by Marc Bernardin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Faith, Pain, Fall

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Artist, Men, Cry

  Kenneth Tynan (1964). “Tynan on theatre”

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• Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Long, Delight

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song”, p.418

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• Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Pain, Rain, Heaven

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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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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• Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Rivers, Sorrow

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.138, Lotus Press

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• In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

  Edward Abbey

  Fate, Men, Differences

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.

  David Richo

  Glowing, Two, People

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Confused, Mean, Men

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• Love never comes with a brochure of rules and regulations, a prospectus with guides of what is acceptable and what is abominable. It’s a standard to follow your heart, and that’s what I did and if doing that hurt you, then I’m sorry… sorry for coming in your life and wasting your time, for causing you an anguish so great that you could not bear the sight of me. Today, I am proud to stand up and honour myself and proclaim to the world… yes, I loved someone more than myself. I loved someone truly, madly, deeply!

  Faraaz Kazi

  Hurt, Sorry, Heart

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 16, 2012

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• The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young sons she ought to have more decorum and sense. She has for many years criticised Prince Charles for being a distant, undemonstrative father. In the long run he's been the more responsible parent and certainly inflicted less damage, anguish and hurt.

  Lynda Lee-Potter

  Mother, Running, Hurt

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• The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

  Akhenaton

  Distance, Joy, Mind

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• The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Long, World

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.17, The Overlook Press

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• We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish.
  Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

  Talib Kweli

  Pain, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Love Language, Album: Reflection Eternal

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• As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Self, Knowing

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• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Blessing

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.47

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• The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

  Angelus Silesius

  Jesus, Names, Soul

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• A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish and solitude, and hence fills up the void with a second idol.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Love, Idols, Solitude

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