Agony Quote by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until…

— Frederick Banting

“He felt Death reaching out to him. But all of a sudden there was something else, too: words. Words that relieved the pain, cooled…

— Cornelia Funke

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could…

— Marcel Proust

And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an…

— Ray Bradbury

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of…

— Oscar Wilde

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow,…

— Louisa May Alcott

For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of…

— Melina Marchetta

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The tears of those who never cry, the calm, the levelheaded ones, are terrible to see. She seemed to be split or torn by…

— John Crowley

...but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.

— J.R. Ward

But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated…

— Charles Dickens

The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page,…

— Philip K. Dick