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“He wandered aimlessly. The sun was setting. A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the…

— Victor Hugo

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated all the…

— Victor Hugo

“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night…

— Kat Dunn

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel…

— Tao Lin

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely,…

— Elizabeth Goudge