Deformity Quote by Anonymous

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For…

— Anonymous

“Having reshaped my words with an intensity of feeling I had not known before, I could not understand why others were not overcome with…

— Norman Mailer

Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had…

— Zane Grey

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It…

— Jacques Charles

“I have often been asked how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. There is scarcely anything in my experience about…

— Frederick Douglass

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

— Raoul Vaneigem

I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized…

— Margo Lanagan

“To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache;…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive…

— Anonymous

“Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom…

— Colleen Houck

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The transience of human feeling is nothing short of ludicrous. My mercurial fluctuations in the course of a single evening made me feel as…

— Siri Hustvedt