Anguish
J.R.R. Tolkien
[ Gollum speaking of the Ring :] Where iss it? Where iss it? . . . Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
Caio Valério Catulo
Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior .
Caio Valério Catulo
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how that can be? / I know not, but I feel the agony.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.
Caio Valério Catulo
I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.
Emily Jane Brontë
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A still small voice spake unto me, “Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?”
Virginia Woolf
Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we cant go through another of those terrible times. And I shant recoverthis time. I begin to hear voices, and cant concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do.
John Updike
[ On Ted Williams’s last baseball game at FenwayPark, Boston, Mass. :] Our noise for someseconds passed beyond excitement into akind of immense open anguish, a cry to besaved. But immortality is nontransferable. Thepapers said that the other players, and eventhe umpires on the field, begged him to comeout and acknowledge us in some way, but henever had and did not now. Gods do not answerletters.
Mark Twain
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucketof whitewash and a long-handled brush. Hesurveyed the fence, and all gladness left himand a deep melancholy settled down upon hisspirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feethigh. Life to him seemed hollow, and existencebut a burden.