Ability Quote by Diane Ackerman

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast…

— Anonymous

“But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled up within,…

— Anonymous

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being…

— Cassandra Clare

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 had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This was not the way to think things out for himself, and that was what he had to do. Take each piece of happening…

— Kate Seredy

He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as…

— Nicholas Sparks

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London