Top 464 Anguish Quotes & Sayings

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

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

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

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

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

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

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

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

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own.

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.

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

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

...my soul bleeding tears of anguish

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

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

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

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

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

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

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

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

My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

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

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding.

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

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

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Anguish is the universal language.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

... true faith never comes without anguish.

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.

Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.

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

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.