Chains Quote by Anonymous

“Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition would break…

— Daniel Defoe

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Anonymous

“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Mary Shelley

“The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“...out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand, like an…

— Georges Bataille

“It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I swayed…

— Herman Melville

“Only after something is done do we truly realise it cannot be undone. Never had a night seemed to me so ill-omened; never had…

— Yasmina Khadra

“Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“And I— soft, weak, obscene, digesting, juggling with dismal thoughts— I, too, was In the way . Fortunately, I didn’t feel it, although I…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make up for…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I…

— Mary Shelley

“Houses, gardens, and people were transfigured into musical sounds, all that was solid seemed to be transfigured into soul and into gentleness. Sweet veils…

— Robert Walser