#anguish

No, I'm not anguished and tormented. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#i #tormented

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

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#beautiful #beautiful music #conceals #cries #formed

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love. ↗

— Edith Stein

#because #break #concerns #end #fellow

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#ever #experience #i #jealousy #leads

Today you are walking in Paris the women are all steeped in blood It was and I'd rather not remember it was at beauty's decline ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#loss-of-love #love #beauty

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#feeling #grief #love #soul #suffering

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

— Richard Corliss

#anguished #mostly #pauses #poem #production