anguish quotes

In our anguish we struggle To elude Him, to lie to Him, yet His love observes His appalling promise; His predilection As we wander and weep is with us to the end, Minding our meanings, our least matter dear to Him.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
^6  The Age of  Anxiety, pt.6, Epilogue.

All the devastation, the butchery, the plundering, the conflagrations, and all the anguish which accompanied the recent disaster at Rome were in accordance with the general practice of warfare.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 427  City of God, vol.1, ch.1, section 8.

In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift, The battle to the strong. See Bible101:85.

-John Davidson
  'War Song', stanza1.

Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.

-William Harrison Faulkner
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

Making love is the sovereign remedy for anguish.

- Fre  de  rick Leboyer
Birth without Violence.

   O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

- Sir Walter Scott
  Marmion, canto 6, stanza 30.