145 Quotes About Anguish
- Author Annie Proulx
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She meant well. But knew nothing about children and the anguish they suffered.
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- Author James Salter
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She had accepted the limitations of her life. It was this anguish, this contentment which created her grace.
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- Author Ron Baratono
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Life is unpredictable. Situations will move at their own pace, especially the ones we have no control over. We find ourselves at times, angry at a possible scenario in a situation that hasn’t even happen yet. Then, the exact opposite happens. Looking back at the thoughts wasted and false anguish, we’re all better off with patience and an open mind.
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- Author Alexandre Dumas
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Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.
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- Author Mitch Albom
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But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before.. ..I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? - I'm almost... drawn to them.
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- Author John Cowper Powys
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Thus, in the huge compensatory ebb and flow of great creative Nature, one tension of human feeling has the power of ejecting, or completely cancelling, another strain of feeling. For the emotional tension of a frustrated passion there is no better cure than to spend an hour or two in the presence of terrible bodily anguish.
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- Author Saim .A. Cheeda
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If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.
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- Author Charles Baudelaire
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Passion sits on the skull Of Humanity, And this infidel enthroned Laughs shamelessly, And gaily blows round bubbles That will fly, As if to join with worlds Deep in the sky. Rising on high, the frail Luminous globe, Shatters and bursts its slim soul Like a dream of gold. I hear at each bubble, the skull Moan and contend: 'This vicious, ridiculous game, When will it end? What you are blowing away Again and again, You murderous fiend, is my body My blood and my brain!
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- Author Philip Roth
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We are immoderate because grief is immoderate, all the hundreds and thousands of kinds of grief.
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