Anguish Quotes - Page 6

• To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.

  Frida Kahlo

  Stars, Knowing, Bird

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• I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Country, People, Political

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• Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.

  Steven Erikson

  Pain, Betrayal, Despair

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.426, Random House

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• The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

  Boris Sidis

  Worry, Anxiety, Feelings

  Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”

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• Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Injury, Repentance

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.7

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

  George Eliot

  Light, Soul, Answers

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.141

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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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• 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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• With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sight, Spirit, Grows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.87

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• Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Regret, Teaching

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.135, Lotus Press

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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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• Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Laughter, Expression, Laughing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.156

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• Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Fire, Soul

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.244

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Prayer, Soul, Bears

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• There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lying, Heart, Feelings

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.68

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