#anguish

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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


#anguish #cost #i #i am #know

One thought I think every person eventually thinks is, “Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind.



Jarod Kintz


#anguish #birthday #death #die #human

The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .” “Ah, yes. How much did you relay to Lord Voldemort?” “Everything — everything I heard! That is why — it is for that reason — he thinks it means Lily Evans!” “The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July —” “You know what I mean! He thinks it means her son, he is going to hunt her down — kill them all —” “If she means so much to you, surely Lord Voldemort will spare her? Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?” “I have — I have asked him —” “You disgust me.


J.K. Rowling


#anguish #disgust #lily-evans #prophecy #severus-snape

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your throat As if you were never to be loved again If you lived in the old days you would enter a monastery You are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayer You make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter crackles The sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your life It's a painting hanging in a dark museum And sometimes you go and look at it close up


Guillaume Apollinaire


#city #crowd #laughing #laughter #love

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.


Robert Southey


#cannot #friend #heal #like #limb

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.


Leonard Cohen


#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.


Cal Thomas


#broken #character #conscience #cry #homes

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.


Camille Paglia


#content #craving #earth #envy #exiles

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.


Peter King


#anguish #causing #construct #deep #else

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


#away #dares #few #heart #human