Feelings Quote by James L. Brooks

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and…

— Bell Hooks

“In fact, the sickness I was suffering from was that I had been driven out of the paradise of childhood and had not found…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion snares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember…

— Thomas Browne

“In this sort of hair-trigger eternity I felt that everything was justified, supremely justified; I felt the wars inside me that had left behind…

— Henry Miller

It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation…

— Timothy Dwight V

“O you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me, you do not know…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it,…

— George Eliot

“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. However wrong we…

— Henri Barbusse

“It was then that I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for…

— Anita Brookner

“Hatred the only moving force, a petulant unhappy striving - childhood the only happiness, and that unknowing; then the continual battle that cannot ever…

— Patrick O'Brian