Anguish Quotes

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

Music, Beautiful, Heart

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship, Loneliness, Words

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry

Truth, May, Whole

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold

Loneliness, Makes, Share

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco

Dreams, Together, Bring

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil

Struggle, Serenity, Against

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas More

Cannot, Here, Tell

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew Henry

Great, Pain, Sigh

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

Beauty, Heart, Laughter

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey

Time, Friend, May

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Happiness, True

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius

Bitterness, Flowers, Taste

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

Life, Experience, Jealousy

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

Life, Depression, Nothing

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire

Religion, Sad, Long

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
Doris Lessing

Sure, Everybody, Feels

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthus

Great, Painting, Pleasure

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
Marcel Marceau

Lost, Black, Destiny

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.
Mike Ditka

Past, Win, Goal

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood

Parents, Wish, Guilt

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz

Time, Down, Write

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras

Fear, Pain, Three

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.
Charles Bronson

Pain, Mind, Someone

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Indra Devi

Freedom, Fear, Loneliness

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

Nothing, Behind

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun

Another, Cause, Works

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Human, Two, Big

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.
Mike Pence

Why, Cannot, Present

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