Life itself Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“I want the pain of knowing them, and by extension myself: who and what I really am. Maybe with that scalpel, red-hot and sterilized…

— Isaac Marion

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau

“Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses…

— A.P

“The people in the line scratched and twitched and jumped depending on whether they were on their way up or down. They all wanted…

— Nicole Trope

“Terror had them all for a moment, and it ravaged them, and when it was finished, shock had its way with them, and left…

— Dean F. Wilson

“I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.”

— Toni Morrison

“Pain is the enemy. It is a ghost. I will allow it to wash over me, through me, leaving nothing in its wake.”

— Michaela McGregor

“And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.”

— patrick suskind

“The agony is unbearable. Unbearable and endless.”

— Alan Early

“People were crazy with pain and secrets.”

— Anna Funder

“But like a teenager with no control over his mouth in the midst of a hormonal meltdown, I was at the mercy of the…

— A.J. Rose

“Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.”

— Teri Terry