Broken Quote by Theodore Roethke

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark…

— Rebecca Stead

I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light.…

— Anzia Yezierska

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but…

— Anonymous

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life…

— Henry Miller

The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was…

— Hermann Hesse

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

— Mark Twain

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of…

— Naguib Mahfouz

There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But…

— Jim Goad

“Sometimes people become mean because of horrible experiences. It’s a gradual process that hardens their hearts and minds and forces them to develop a…

— Astrid Yrigollen

I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to…

— J. Maarten Troost

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the…

— Kevin Gates

The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in…

— Antoni Tapies