Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

In ten years of struggle and travail that beggar description, in ten years of suffering almost beyond human endurance, we have witnessed the indifference with which all Europe and even our brothers of the north have remained but passive spectators to our anguish.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.