Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing…

— Oscar Wilde

“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me…

— Hélène Berr

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“I felt expendable, throw-away, swallowed by a big biological project that I didn't initiate or choose, that produced me but would also chew me…

— Lionel Shriver

“He was surprised at how useless his mind was.”

— Dan Chaon

“I just lay there, helplessly subject to my anxieties. A good many of them I could have put out of my mind, if I'd…

— Marilynne Robinson

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

— A.S. Byatt

“You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and…

— David Wroblewski

“And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain…

— H.G. Wells

“I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but…

— Sylvia Plath

“It was a point of pain, of looking out from his loathing as if it were a cocoon that had served its purpose.”

— G.P. Ching

“I rested my forehead against the wall and closed my eyes. It wasn’t just my curiosity, or my fascination with anatomy, or how I…

— Megan Shepherd