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Anguish Quotes

Anguish is the universal language.

Anguish is the universal language.

Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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

"Everybody Loves Rudd" by Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. August 12, 2011.

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

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

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

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.42, Vintage

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

"Being and Nothingness". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943.

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd (2003). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.299, Courier Corporation

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

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

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

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