Definition of Anguish

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Definition of Anguish
	Anguish Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. To distress with extreme pain or grief. Related Definitions: Body, Distress, Either, Excruciating, Extreme, Grief, Mind, Of, Or, Pain, To, With

Anguish Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anguish Translations

anguish in Danish is angst
anguish in Dutch is beklemming, benauwdheid, angst
anguish in Finnish is tuska
anguish in French is angoissons, angoissez, angoisser, angoissent
anguish in German is Pein
anguish in Italian is pena, angoscia, paura
anguish in Norwegian is pine, kval
anguish in Spanish is miedoso, miedo, angustia

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