Depressing Quote by Will Self

“To quench that thirst, Ward would become a human”

— Haggai Carmon

“...and I was thinking of what it would be like to have such a wound, to lift up the bottom of my shirt at…

— Evan Dara

“My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my…

— Veronica Roth

“The death mask.” My mother dips her fingers in a bowl of white clay. She covers my face with it, blows on it to…

— Zoraida Córdova

“Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.” I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was…

— Christina Lee

“I woke up in the middle of the night suffocating and gasping for breath. After a minute or so of difficulty breathing, I realized…

— Steven Magee

“Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something…

— Grace Paley

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, said Mr. Bumble. So cry away.”

— Charles Dickens

“I wasn't feeling grief: that hellish chest-crammed agony you feel - but some portion of my brain activated by the memory decided to trigger…

— William Boyd

“I felt a hard knot untangle in my chest. It was a relief, a worry that I had not known I had, dissolving like…

— D.C. Lozar

“Occasionally, someone coughed with a dry rasp that sounded like a mummy tapped on the head with a pair of tongs.”

— Haruki Murakami

I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning