Anguishing Quotes

#1. There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Sholem Asch

#3. We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

Heinrich Heine

#4. Christians with the most spiritual depth are generally those who have been taken through the most intense and deeply anguishing fires of the soul. If you have been praying to know more of Christ, do not be surprised if He leads you through the desert or through a furnace of pain.

Lettie B. Cowman

#5. To live in a realm wracked with chaos is to live with pain, anguishing memories, and trolls. But it is also means living with unicorns.

C. Gockel

#6. Stop performing. Start becoming. Stop trying harder. Start surrendering to the big call of God on your life. Let go of the desire to mitigate risk. Go all out.

Anonymous

#7. June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

David Eagleman

#9. You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

George Herman

#10. I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

Anna Kournikova

#11. That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.

Edith Wharton

#12. The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

Edmund Phelps

#13. Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected - for better and for worse, sometimes barely tolerated and sometimes arranged into lovely patterns.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#14. You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

John Lanchester

#15. I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Jon Johansen

#16. I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

Mila Kunis

#17. If your shoes stick to the bar floor, you may need to re-think using the bar bathroom.

Kimberly J. Dalferes

#18. I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college.

Jojo

#19. To love life is to love God.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Christy Turlington