#anguish

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

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ↗

— Thomas More

#anguish #bring #cannot #earth #heal

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

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#before #body #ever #feel #greater

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. ↗

— Richard Corliss

#anguished #mostly #pauses #poem #production

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#days #first #long #many #october

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#asunder #beauty #cutting #edges #heart

Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish. ↗

— Émile Zola

#money #speculation #money

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

— Balthus

#anguish #endless #great #painting #pleasure

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#composer #despair #down #every #forgetting