Quotes with 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.

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  • Eugène Ionesco Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Bill McKibben A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Trocchi All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
    Alexander Trocchi
    Scottish writer (1925 - 1984)
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  • Elie Wiesel As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
    Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Emily Dickinson For each ecstatic instant.
    We must an anguish pay.
    In keen and quivering ratio.
    To the ecstasy.
    Complete Poems (1924)
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Richard Nixon For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Patrick Henry 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.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Lucretius From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Simone Weil In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Arthur Hailey Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • William Shakespeare One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Charles Baudelaire 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.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Balthus Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Georges Bataille 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.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Lillian Smith 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.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Boris Sidis The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.
    The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Angelus Silesius The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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