Break Quote by May Sarton

I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the…

— Michel Houellebecq

When I have a good performance, I'm wrecked at the end of it. I feel completely empty, and tears are pouring down my face…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

“The image of a giant Unhappiness Machine came into my mind – a machine designed to pump out millions of dissatisfied consumers, who buy…

— Francesca Martínez

“Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason? … They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here,…

— Brian Selznick

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I try to turn these bad things that happen to me into something good. The worst feeling in the world is when something is…

— John Wilson

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

— Deb Caletti

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

— Ned Vizzini

When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that's in me is not coming…

— Michael Franti

Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going…

— Scott Stossel