Anguish Quotes - Page 2

• We should care about what is going on in the world.

  John Legend

  World, Care, Should

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• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Men, People

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• She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Terrible, Findings

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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

  Lucretius

  Flower, Enchantment, Literature

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• No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

  George Eliot

  Loving You, New Life, Pay

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1381, ShandonPress

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• 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

  Winning, Past, Goal

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

  Matthew Henry

  Pain, Sigh, Extremity

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.24

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• O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Angel, Light

  Marmion canto 6, st. 30 (1808) See Shakespeare 228

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• The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Existentialist

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

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• Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Acceptance, Sea, Parent

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

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Travel, Cities, Two

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• 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

  Destiny, Men, Light

  Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1965.

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

  Natalie Wood

  Parent, Suffering, Wish

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• 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

  Vivid, London, Steps

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jacques Barzun

  Science, Causes, Chiefs

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent, and troubled as your own experiences. They are as beset with suffering as yours. Literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people's lives--their anguish, their loves, their passions. Often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.

  Chaim Potok

  Real, Passion, Other Cultures

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• ...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

  Shalom Auslander

  Sadness, Race, Hatred

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Dream, Sweet

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• I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

  John Keats

  Rose, Dew, Fever

  'La belle dame sans merci' (1820) st. 3

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• The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

  Paul Gauguin

  Children, Men, Sea

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• One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Fire, Burning

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.36, Classic Books Company

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• Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Grief, Men

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Crush, Running

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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