Anguish Quote by James Joyce

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had…

— Oscar Wilde

I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.

— Sylvia Plath

Staring into the mirror, I was surprised to see a haunted look in my brown eyes. There was pain there, pain and loss that…

— Richelle Mead

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

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

When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself…

— Angela Carter

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and…

— Victoria Woodhull

When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself…

— Cheryl Strayed

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and…

— Henry Miller

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I…

— Anonymous