Anguish Quotes

“We all encounter the moment of agony, when our heart is hungry and the only one who could feed it, never will.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2014

“My life was falling somewhere between mental anguish and boredom. I tended to resist any kind of joy, even when I longed to live a more exciting life. I couldn’t make even small or simple changes, and I wasn’t able to shift my thinking.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“The question is not “How am I to find God?” but “How am I to let myself be found by him?”. God is not the patriarch who stays home, doesn’t move, and expects his children to come to him, apologize for their aberrant behavior, beg for forgiveness, and promise to do better. To the contrary, he leaves the house, ignoring his dignity by running toward them, pays no heed to apologies and promises of change, and brings them to the table. When I look through God’s eyes at my lost self and discover God’s joy at my coming home, then my life may become less anguished and more trusting.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“Anguish is an emotion and an experience that is singular and must be understood and named, especially for those of us who have experienced it, will experience it, or may bear witness to it.
This is how we define anguish: An almost unbearable and traumatic swirl of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. The shock and incredulity can take our breath away, and grief and powerlessness often come for our hearts and our minds. But anguish, the combination of these experiences, not only takes away our ability to breathe, to feel, and to think - it comes for our bones. Anguish often causes us to physically crumple in on ourselves, literally bringing us to our knees or forcing us all the way to the ground. The element of powerlessness is what makes anguish traumatic. We are unable to change, reverse, or negotiate what has happened. Anguish always finds its way back to us. After going through such things; your bones are slightly different than they were before. ”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“Gloom has a way of making us bloom.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been...”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

“I hadnt known until that night that at its worst lust could be something close to anguish.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“Do not bury your sorrows like seeds in a garden; instead, let them cascade onto the soil of the earth the way rain patters on rooftops, flows down bricks, alas to drench grass and flowers. Do not bury your anguish; let it drip like rainclouds; you will miss the sunlight but when blooms finally blossom, you'll understand that the sun cannot grow flowers without her rain.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Think of a sinner who is sinking in the abyss; listen to his cry of anguish when with his last groan he vindicates the justice his life has mocked and says: It is self-inflicted”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard

“I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I’m beginning to think that unhappiness is one of the simple things in life: a pure, basic emotion to be respected, if not savoured. I would never dream of suggesting that we should wallow in misery, or shrink from doing everything we can to alleviate it; but I do think it’s instructive. After all, unhappiness has a function: it tells us that something is going wrong. If we don’t allow ourselves the fundamental honesty of our own sadness, then we miss an important cue to adapt. We seem to be living in an age when we’re bombarded with entreaties to be happy, but we’re suffering from an avalanche of depression; we’re urged to stop sweating the small stuff, and yet we’re chronically anxious. I often wonder if these are just normal feelings that become monstrous when they’re denied. A great deal of life will always suck. There will be moments when we’re riding high, and moments when we can’t bear to get out of bed. Both are normal. Both, in fact, require a little perspective.

Sometimes the best response to our howls of anguish is the honest one. We need friends who wince along with our pain, who tolerate our gloom, and who allow us to be weak for a while when we're finding our feet again. We need people who acknowledge that we can't always hang on. That sometimes everything breaks. Short of that, we need to perform those functions for ourselves: to give ourselves a break when we need it and to be kind. To find our own grit, in our own time.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“As he attempted to wrap his mind around the truth, something collapsed within him as if he had constructed a mansion of cards-a cathedral of dreams- and with a breath, it tumbled down.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“What else would she have to go through, she wondered, to fill up the pages of the story of her life? That volume was already very crammed.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“Everyone in life has an issue in their life that’s not quite right. Something’s a little out of balance, and issue that we think of often, but afraid to confront this, in fear of the confrontation it might cause, or the drama it could create. Go after this, and clear your mind. The confrontation won’t last forever. The possible drama will fade. It’s better than wearing this every single day of your life. We have one life. A few days of conflict is better than a lifetime of emotional anguish.”
― Ron Baratono

“Anguish is an emotion and an experience that is singular and must be understood and named, especially for those of us who have experienced it, will experience it, or may bear witness to it.

This is how we define anguish: An almost unbearable and traumatic swirl of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. The shock and incredulity can take our breath away, and grief and powerlessness often come for our hearts and our minds. But anguish, the combination of these experiences, not only takes away our ability to breathe, to feel, and to think - it comes for our bones. Anguish often causes us to physically crumple in on ourselves, literally bringing us to our knees or forcing us all the way to the ground. The element of powerlessness is what makes anguish traumatic. We are unable to change, reverse, or negotiate what has happened. Anguish always finds its way back to us. After going through such things; your bones are slightly different than they were before. ”
― Brené Brown

“Amren,' Varian said, and sank onto his knees. 'I am begging you-'
...
She looked to Varian, a wry smile on her red mouth. 'I watched them most- the humans who loved. I never understood it- how it happened. Why it happened.' She paused a step away from the Cauldron. 'I think I might have learned with you, though. Perhaps that was a last gift, too.'

Varian's face twisted with anguish. But he made no further move to stop her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I have no more fight left, the will to keep going has been extinguished and I am ready to throw in the towel. Nothing matters anymore, my heart is hollow and i see no hope for a better tomorrow. There's nothing that can lighten this heavy burden of despair - it is all too much, and it feels as if there is no end in sight.”
― Jonathan Harnisch

“This moment feels so dreadfully sore, Like a prickly thorn that I can't ignore. It's excruciating, oh how it stings, Like a bee's sharp sting that really zings. Pain, oh pain, it's part of the game, In life's grand adventure, it's never the same. From bumps and bruises to a broken heart, Pain finds a way to play its part. It sneaks up on us, oh yes it does, With a sting and a throb, just because. But Let me pamper myself with care so fine, In this very moment, oh how divine! With utmost tenderness, I shall embrace, A moment of self-love, at my own pace! I require some mercy, oh yes indeed, To grant myself kindness, in word and in deed. In this world so vast, with troubles untold, I seek solace and grace, to have and to hold.”
― Jonathan Harnisch

“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.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“There is a faltering scream, or something that sounds like a scream. There is a sound that I cannot or have never been able to identify: a sound that's not human or is more than human, the sound of lives being extinguished but also the sound of material things breaking. It's the sound of things falling from on high, an interrupted and somehow also eternal sound, a sound that didn't ever end, that kept ringing in my head from that very afternoon and still shows no sign of wanting to leave it, that is forever suspended in my memory, hanging in it like a towel on a hook. That sound is the last thing heard in the cockpit of Flight 965.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“The virus and the torment of the heavenly will make people drunk, prior getting drunk revise your life.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Prior the warning God won’t send the anguish.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“दर्द को इतना जिया कि दर्द मुझसे डर गया
और फिर हंस करके बोला यार मैं तो मर गया
-संजय ग्रोवर”
― संजय ग्रोवर Sanjay Grover, संजय ग्रोवर

“We all enter a period of agony, when our heart is hungry and the only one who could feed it, never will.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2014

“Will we understand the father’s joy? Will we let the Father embrace us? This is our resistance to living a joyful life. God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found. It is God’s joy, not the joy that the world offers. It is the joy that comes from seeing a child walk home amid all the destruction, devastation, and anguish of the world. It is a hidden joy.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“Sensuality has two edges... one of laughter, one of anguish.”
― Lebo Grand

“The anguish of looking for you, with hopes of finding again, is not like a camel going through the eye of a needle. Yea, rather it’s the needle going through the eye of a camel.”
― Anthony Liccione

“If the anguish is stronger than you, write a eulogy for it.”
― Florin-Marian Hera, Ten Loud Rocks

“The suffocating anguish retracted, collapsing into itself like a matchstick house in a windstorm.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Aquelas gotas salgadas eram lágrimas ou suor correndo pela sua testa em chamas?”
― Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس