#anguish

But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#depression #hope #beauty

Every woman is well aware of the deadly ingredients of her soul which is why they all detest each other. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#anguish #animosity #detest #female #girls

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

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

— Eugene Ionesco

#anguish #bring #ideologies #separate #together

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

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

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

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