It was not reached easily or without a great deal of personal anguish.

The President spoke softly, in his own personal anguish.

But there was a certain personal anguish involved of a sudden, which she would not have expected to feel.

The personal anguish of the poet is submerged; what surfaces are his ideas.

Loving is the chief source of most of our personal anguish.

Whatever personal anguish Scholem felt was subsumed into his work.

Love stories and personal anguish, he seems to add, can have a coherence even when the words used to utter them don't.

The fact that he is a public figure does not deprive him of the right to personal anguish.

He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, "for several years I was almost mad.