#anguish

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

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#did #extremity #great #his #only

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

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

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

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#battle #blood #engaged #first #flows

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

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anguish #forms #never #new #only

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#architecture #big #big city #captures #city