Anguish Quotes
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
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
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media
Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.42, Vintage
William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
"Being and Nothingness". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943.
Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd (2003). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.299, Courier Corporation
They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.
"The Sayings of Rabia" by Richard Monckton Milnes, iv,
R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.17, The Overlook Press
Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company
Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.29, Modern Library
Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.209, Harvard University Press
She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.
Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.1, Bantam