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“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world,…

— Hermann Hesse

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always…

— Francoise Sagan

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that…

— Alice Miller

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of…

— Richard Wright

“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

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had…

— Anchee Min

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of…

— Bertrand Russell