Great Anguish Quotes

#1. Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

George Eliot

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

Balthus

#3. The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

Paul Gauguin

#4. Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.

Mary Renault

#5. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

Ralph Chaplin

#6. 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

#7. I think my thinking with my heart
I act with my thinking from my heart
but I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#8. Pain is the great equalizer, the cure to mental anguish, the antidote for a hopeful heart.

David Estes

#9. You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Andrew Jackson

#10. I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.

Jimmy Carter

#11. I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

James Gosling

#12. When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness - as if the tearing asunder of the flesh must turn at last into a disembodied anguish.

Edith Wharton

#13. To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Amy Grant

#14. Under every burden, ... God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, ... His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, ... God will our His balm: Ease the pain and anguish, ... bring a blessed calm.

Frances J Roberts

#15. ( ... ) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all.

Thomas Mann

#16. We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

Alistair Cockburn

#17. Down the stone steps to the windswept beach, her raven tresses flowing out behind her. She scanned the empty sands, and when she saw no sign of Blaine, a great cry of anguish escaped her lips. She could not live without him! She would sooner die!

Jeanne DuPrau

#18. I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: it is the cry for peace!

Pope Francis

#19. Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Elizabeth Moon

#20. Our life is a journey toward happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Everything I think and everything I do is wrong.

Alicia Silverstone

#22. In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Aberjhani

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

Matthew Henry

#24. What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.

Elizabeth Lowell

#25. When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

Sheila Cassidy

#26. Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

Steve Largent

#27. She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. 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.

Saint Ignatius

#29. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.

Herman Melville

#30. With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

Curt Weldon