Anguish Quotes

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

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.

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

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

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

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

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

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

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.

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.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

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

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

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