Downward spiral Quote by Kirsty Moseley

“But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life blindly and dully for so long, my…

— Herman Hesse

“It was both terrible and oddly humbling to realize how easily physical discomfort could take control, expanding like poison gas until it owned all…

— Stephen King

“But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my…

— Zack Love

“Yeah, I had all kinds of tragic reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“When I was fifteen, I felt it coming; now I was sixteen, and it hit. My feet had imperceptibly been set on a new…

— Annie Dillard

“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond…

— Daphne du Maurier

“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave the enduring…

— Dean Koontz

“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs…

— Albert Camus

“The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows…

— William Shakespeare

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden

“That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled…

— James Baldwin

“When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had…

— Shannon Wiersbitzky