Body Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get…

— Glenda Millard

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay…

— Burl Ives

I lay on my floor crying again¦ shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry…

— Nathan Daniels

I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it…

— Kelley Armstrong

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

— Elizabeth Scott

I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care…

— Garth Stein

I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked…

— Ivor Cutler

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody…

— Edvard Munch

Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I…

— Nicole Krauss

The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my…

— David Foster Wallace

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible…

— George Orwell