40 phrases of anguish for when the heart is tight

It is through grief that we become sure that we are able to bear so much anguish and sadness.

Life is a piano. White keys represent happiness and black keys anguish. As time passes, you realize that the black keys also make music.

The Last Song

Follow your anguish, it is the way to yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes the smile you see on my face hides the sadness in my heart…

Only God knows the anguish that every heart suffers.

A thousand times the disappointment of a mistake, than the anguish of regret for not having tried.

My smile is the facade of my anguish.

Anguish is the possibility of freedom. It is the fear of that possibility. Anguish is the pure feeling of the possible.

I cry out to the Lord in my distress and He answers me.

Psalm 120:1

Anxieties for the future prevent us from enjoying the victories of the present.