#anguish

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.
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— Jarod Kintz

#anguish #birthday #death #die #human

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#crown #death #love #prayer #death

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#anguish #delivered #loneliness #needs #solitude

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#anguish #bring #ideologies #separate #together

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anguish #everybody #feels #going #i

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