Anguish Quotes

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Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguish tightens your throatAs if you were never to be loved againIf you lived in the old days you would enter a monasteryYou are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayerYou make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter cracklesThe sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your lifeIt's a painting hanging in a dark museumAnd sometimes you go and look at it close up

Guillaume Apollinaire

Love Prayer Laughter City Paris Painting Crowd Anguish Laughing Praying Monastery Museum

(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separat

(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.

Christopher Hitchens

Fear Death Friends Children Sex Idleness Misery Proust Questionnaire Mothers Impotence Anguish Proust

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I cou

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

William Shakespeare

Fear Grief Injustice Horror Anguish Distress Heaven And Earth Heaven And Hell What Else

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul w

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

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