Tortured-heroes Quote by Tonya Burrows

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.”

— Margaret Way

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“I saw on his face a glimpse of his past. The damage, the unhappiness and the pain, and I wondered what kind of skeletons…

— Cyma Rizwaan Khan

“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged…

— Jack Kerouac

“He didn't understand what happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Sometimes, when he looked at me…I felt him. I didn’t know how much of his soul was intact, but he still had a heart…

— Christina L. Barr

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone…

— Joseph Roth

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in…

— Arthur Conan Doyle