For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound but the loss cannot be repaired.
Here bring your wounded hearts here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
The Muslims have as everyone else says the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying though is that they should listen to public opinion they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish and one which because of its very catholicity grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
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.
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.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly think rightly act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice we can free ourselves from fear anguish and loneliness.
There are only three sins - causing pain causing fear and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
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.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
For me forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?