All 4 Uses of
anguish
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- They streamed upwards before his anguished eyes in dense and maddening fumes and passed away above him till at last the air was clear and cold again.†
Chpt 2 *
- And if it be pain for a mother to be parted from her child, for a man to be exiled from hearth and home, for friend to be sundered from friend, O think what pain, what anguish it must be for the poor soul to be spurned from the presence of the supremely good and loving Creator Who has called that soul into existence from nothingness and sustained it in life and loved it with an immeasurable love.†
Chpt 3
- This, then, to be separated for ever from its greatest good, from God, and to feel the anguish of that separation, knowing full well that it is unchangeable: this is the greatest torment which the created soul is capable of bearing, POENA DAMNI, the pain of loss.†
Chpt 3
- An eternity of endless agony, of endless bodily and spiritual torment, without one ray of hope, without one moment of cessation, of agony limitless in intensity, of torment infinitely varied, of torture that sustains eternally that which it eternally devours, of anguish that everlastingly preys upon the spirit while it racks the flesh, an eternity, every instant of which is itself an eternity of woe.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)