Fear Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again,” he continued, “it is a torture…

— Kelly Creagh

“If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing…

— Mervyn Peake

“Such words he utters, and sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face, and keeps his anguish hidden deep in his breast.”

— Virgil

“My heart faltered, overcome by its frightened, almost frenzied beating because of something I had just lost, or was on the point of losing…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see…

— Leslie Jamison

“who had not felt his daughter’s heart beat against his breast for ten years, “do you want me to die of joy?”

— Honoré de Balzac

“I made an attempt to reach him in his grief. I said, "I've had this pain. To tell you it will go away would…

— Eli Brown

“I struggled to swallow the lump in my throat and speak. “You left me.” “Please believe I did it for a good reason. And…

— Devney Perry

“without him for any length of time made me feel sick. I had to swallow past a painful lump to ask,”

— Sylvia Day

“I shall never forget, in that moment, how instantly conscious I became of my manhood. The primitive deeps of my nature stirred. I felt…

— Jack London

“A splinter of pride got in under my breast-bone and lodged there.”

— Lia Mills

“... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.”

— Philip Roth