Bitter Quote by John Milton

“It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes,…

— Oscar Wilde

“he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had…

— Oscar Wilde

“The deep sleep of an untroubled conscience.”

— Juliana Gray

“The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is…

— Anonymous

“[…] knowing his mood was miserable from lack of sleep […], knowing he was unfair […], knowing all these things but unable to stop…

— Steven Erikson

“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”

— John Geddes

“Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no…

— Nathan Filer

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

— Iris Murdoch

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody…

— Lewis Carroll

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”

— Richard Flanagan

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame…

— John Leonard