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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Simone Weil
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So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklace, drunken bellfor your hands smooth as grapes.And I watch my words from a long way off.They are more yours than mine.They climb on my old suffering like ivy.It climbs the same way on damp walls.You are to blame for this cruel sport.They are fleeing from my dark lair.You fill everything, you fill everything.Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy,and they are more used to my sadness than you are.Now I want them to say what I want to say to youto make you hear as I want you to hear me.The wind of anguish still hauls on them as usual.Sometimes hurricanes of dreams still knock them over.You listen to other voices in my painful voice.Lament of old mouths, blood of old supplications.Love me, companion. Don't forsake me. Follow me.Follow me, companion, on this wave of anguish.But my words become stained with your love.You occupy everything, you occupy everything.I am making them into an endless necklacefor your white hands, smooth as grapes.

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Recovery does not refer to an absence of pain or struggle. Rather, recovery is marked by the transition from anguish to suffering. In anguish the paralyzed man and I lived without hope. We experienced anguish as futile pain, pain that revolved in circles, pain that bore no possibility other than more pain, and pain that lead nowhere. However, when we became hopeful, our anguish was transformed into` true suffering. True suffering is marked by an inner peace, i.e., although we still felt great pain, we also experienced a peace in knowing that this pain was leading us forward into a new future.

Patricia E. Deegan
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The Buddha's original teaching is essentially a matter of four points -- the Four Noble Truths:1. Anguish is everywhere.2. We desire permanent existence of ourselves and for our loved ones, and we desire to prove ourselves independent of others and superior to them. These desires conflict with the way things are: nothing abides, and everything and everyone depends upon everything and everyone else. This conflict causes our anguish, and we project this anguish on those we meet.3. Release from anguish comes with the personal acknowledgment and resolve: we are here together very briefly, so let us accept reality fully and take care of one another while we can.4. This acknowledgement and resolve are realized by following the Eightfold Path: Right Views, Right Thinking, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Recollection, and Right Meditation. Here "Right" means "correct" or "accurate" -- in keeping with the reality of impermanence and interdependence.

Robert Aitken, The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice
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The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Franz Kline
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare
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Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.

Dada Bhagwan
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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before
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