Personal Anguish Quotes

Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it's not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don't know if there's a way to tell people not do this to themselves.

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Staring into the mirror, I was surprised to see a haunted look in my brown eyes. There was pain there, pain and loss that even the nicest dress and makeup couldn't hide.

All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands.

I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.