Crash Quote by Nicole Krauss

Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had…

— Anonymous

“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day…

— Charlotte Brontë

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

— Hermann Hesse

“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the…

— Emil M. Cioran

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as…

— William Shakespeare

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

All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful…

— Hector Berlioz

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded…

— Gabrielle Roy

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the…

— Yann Martel

“Even in the darkest abyss of despair, when it feels as though hope has perished, remember this—the pages of life are never finished. Every…

— Jonathan Harnisch

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky…

— Albert Camus