Suffering Quote by Edie Sedgwick

“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in the presence…

— Victor Hugo

“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time. "When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire…

— Alan Glasser

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy…

— Terry Pratchett

“Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day,…

— Herman Melville

“Torturous screams bounced around in his head, whimpers and cries of pain and lust clouding his mind, overbearing and foreboding. Sinning surrounded him, suffocating…

— J.M. Darhower

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

— John Milton

“It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe…

— Lucretius

“Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the…

— James Joyce

“I saw it in his eyes, first—the beginning of the end, the beginning of things to come. The blackest night, they cut into me,…

— Rachael Wade

“At night, when human discords and harmonies are hushed, . . . there is nothing to moderate the blow with which the infinitely great,…

— Thomas Hardy