Anguish Quotes

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

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

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

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

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

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

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

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

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.

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

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

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

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

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

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.