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He has become the impresario of anguish. Simon Schama’s Power of Art: Picasso, BBC 2006
In anguish we uplift
A new unhallowed song:
The race is to the swift,
The battle to the strong … John Davidson, 1857-1909, War Song, 1899
I felt along with her – not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind. Charles Bronson
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. Leonard Cohen
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. Jean-Paul Sartre
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. ‘Oh, Jane! my hope – my love – my life!’ broke in anguish from his lips. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre