Dreariness Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were…

— Leo Tolstoy

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a…

— Anonymous

It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful…

— Hector Berlioz

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a…

— Ayn Rand

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning…

— Anonymous

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that…

— Joseph O'Neill

“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

“The perturbations, anxieties, depravations, deaths, exceptions in the physical or moral order, spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations fostered by the will, torments, destruction, confusion,…

— Lautréamont

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe