Quotes about Anguish

Oftentimes, the hottest fires of hell are fueled from within.

Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God do this, or even allow this, and still claim to be a loving God? Does God punish people for thousands of years with infinite, eternal torment for things they did in their few finite years of life?

Central to their trust that all would be reconciled was the belief that untold masses of people suffering forever doesn't bring God glory. Restoration brings God glory; eternal torment doesn't. Reconciliation brings God glory; endless anguish doesn't. Renewal and return cause God's greatness to shine through the universe; never-ending punishment doesn't.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all about her.

It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.

There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly.

You have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Because I have called and you refused, 24 I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, Because you disdained all my counsel, 25 And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; 26 I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, 27 And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Proverbs 1:23-27

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.

When we fear we will suffer, we already suffer the things we fear.