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Quotes About Anguish

I glance at Jax. He looks worried. So does Ollie. Hayley looks pained.
~ Jen Calonita
Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.
~ Jennifer Ashley
It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
~ Jennifer Egan
It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
~ Jennifer Egan
I felt... numb wasn't the right word. My mouth was too dry. My heart was beating too fast. I hurt, but it felt like I was hurting from a distance.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
People across history speak of being haunted by suicides and tempted by them toward the grave.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.
~ Jennifer Niven
Suddenly I'm having one of those moments that you have after losing someone—when you feel as if you've been kicked in the stomach and all your breath is gone, and you might never get it back. I want to sit down on the dirty, littered ground right now and cry until I can't cry anymore.
~ Jennifer Niven
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
~ Emil Cioran
Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair
~ Émile Zola
He knew that, from now on, every day would be alike, that they would all bring the same sufferings. And he saw the weeks, the months, the years that awaited him, gloomy and implacable, coming one after the other, falling on him and suffocating him bit by bit. When the future is without hope, the present takes on a vile, bitter taste.
~ Émile Zola
A horribly bitter taste came into his mouth: the futility of everything, the eternal pain of existence.
~ Émile Zola
Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.
~ Émile Zola
On May 5, 1896, he wrote in his diary; "I have no longer anything to say; everything is alike in its horrible cruelty.
~ Émile Zola
Pero es que no ve lo que estoy sufriendo?... Que estupidez, ¿verdad? ¡Sufro como un niño!
~ Émile Zola
When the future is without hope, the present tastes appallingly bitter.
~ Émile Zola
All at once, she had fallen into the most extreme wretchedness: that of believing that one is not loved.
~ Émile Zola
L'idée de la mort, jetée avec désespoir entre deux baisers, revenait implacable et aiguë.
~ Émile Zola
Oui, tout son mal venait de ce rire qu'il avait bu.
~ Émile Zola
The house beneath slumbered in unbroken stillness. The silence filled his ears with a hum, which grew into a sound of whispering voices. Slowly and irresistibly these voices mastered him and increased the feeling of anxiety which had almost choked him several times that day. What could be the cause of such mental anguish? What could be the strange trouble which had slowly grown within him and had now become so unbearable? He had not fallen into sin.
~ Émile Zola
Oh, Justice, what frightful despair oppresses our hearts!
~ Émile Zola
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.
~ Emily Bronte
Existence, after losing her, would be hell
~ Emily Bronte