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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find
blood, nails, a bit of anguish. — Anne Enright

Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss. — Laird Barron

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

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! — Martha Beck

But pain and anguish were everywhere anyway. Might as well put them to good use. — Naomi Shihab Nye

... hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men. — George S. Patton

Pain is the great equalizer, the cure to mental anguish, the antidote for a hopeful heart. — David Estes

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

... true faith never comes without anguish. — R.L. LaFevers

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. — Miguel De Unamuno

Her kiss didn't sweep away the dark anguish he felt in his heart. Instead, it embraced it. It acknowledged it. — Courtney Milan

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies. — Guy De Maupassant

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings. — Dean Koontz

Physical pain will never compare to mental anguish — Gena Showalter

Which Anguish was the utterest
then
To perish, or to live? — Emily Dickinson

Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish. — Dada Bhagwan

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot. — May Sarton

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

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. — Stefan Molyneux

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life. — William Styron

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. — George Eliot

This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. — Aberjhani

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life. — Amy Grant

As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. — Elie Wiesel

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

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish. — Julian Barnes

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn. — Kalidasa

Mom was crying while she cooked, salting domesticity with anguish, the recipe of her life. — Justina Chen

7I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love, for you have seen my troubles, and you care about the anguish of my soul.+ — Anonymous

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming. — Anna Freeman

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot. — Emily Dickinson

My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish. — Isabel Allende

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish. — Francine Rivers

I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow. — Fynn

His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary. — D.T. Max

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt. — John Ringo

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood. — Amy Denise

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer. — James Russell Lowell

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. — Jeremy Taylor

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted. — Betty Smith

It referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like. — Don DeLillo

The reduction of anguish to Hallmark-card hurt. The — Taiye Selasi

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life. — Eckhart Tolle

One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. — William Shakespeare

Should - a word of anguish rather than consolation. — Gena Showalter

Why a writer? I should have been a surgeon or a mechanic, for surely a scalpel or wrench couldn't cause me the anguish words do. — J. Carter Swift

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
And shall I couple Hell? — William Shakespeare

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish -- — Emily Dickinson

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity. — Che Guevara

In our hours of bodily pain and mental anguish, we find ourselves as naturally driven to prayer as the wreck is driven upon the shore by the waves. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair
Of not being able to express
With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,
The bleeding of my heart. — Fernando Pessoa

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up. — John Fuller

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid. — Doris Lessing

What we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope. — Thomas A Kempis

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson

No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy. — Patti Smith

Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect. — Chang-rae Lee

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city. — Richard Saul Wurman

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? — Georges Bernanos

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish. — Jean Vanier

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms. — Franz Kline

That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away. — Mallika Nawal

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

Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse. — John R. Rice

Gloom and anguish is the description of the lives of those who live in darkness — Sunday Adelaja

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

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish. — Sebastien De Castell

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality. — Simone De Beauvoir

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish. — Anurag Kashyap

It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed — Grace Paley

I had learned a fundamental truth about killing: The victim's anguish is brief and fleeting, but the murderer's endures forever. — Jeanne Kalogridis

Beauty is an answer to anguish... — Maud Casey

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world. — Edgar Morin

Our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters. — Emm Cole

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

We do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop. — George Sand

A merciful God must surely close his eyes in anguish against the barbaric will of man to main and butcher one another — Linda Goodnight

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. — Mary Shelley

Pg.9 In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock. — Herman Melville

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

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

She nodded, knowing that he toyed with her, lightening her anguish, but she had no power in this exchange. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

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

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Can every anguish calmly bear. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. — J.K. Rowling

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

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

Sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish. — Shelley Winters

An obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face. — Andrew Hussie