Psychology Quote by Ben Fountain

“This is a truth so brutally self-evident that he can't fathom why it's not more widely perceived, hence his contempt for the usual public…

— Ben Fountain

“As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.”

— Ben Fountain

“He knew he lived in hell. He accepted it. He rarely complained. But truth be told, he desperately wished he could make his escape.…

— Sylvain Reynard

“Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings and round…

— John Milton

“He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere…

— Aminatta Forna

“What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions—the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted,…

— Wally Lamb

“He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he’d guessed out likewise for the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Having spent time in Hell, he knew that government paperwork was the closest mankind had ever come to achieving true soul-crushing misery. “Where’s”

— Larry Correia

“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness…

— Hermann Bahr

“The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes,…

— Louisa May Alcott