"Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle."

Emotion, Distress, Sleep, Hope, Imagination

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"Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Emotion, Attachment, Abhorrence, Life, Truth

"I can hear your angered silence,Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance,Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Emotion, Anger, Silence, Heart

"The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Emotion, Fear, Mortality, Life

"Jealousy is love in competition."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Emotion, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom

"Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.""Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?""I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.""Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?""You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.""Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Emotion, Anger, Humor, Animals, Suffering

"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Emotion, Change, Feelings, Resentment

"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Emotion, Depth, Feeling, Mind

"I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Emotion, Anxiety, Aspiration, Self, Reflection

"And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Emotion, Pain, Happiness, Choice, Desire

"Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth.""You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Emotion, Truth, Regret, Love, Today

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Being, Feeling, Words

"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."

Revolution,

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

Existence,

"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading."

Time, Effort, Reading

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Home, Past, Present

"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."

Literature, Fancy, Prose, Style

"Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths-until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about."

History, War, Memory, Suffering

"His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss."

Emotion, Heart, Loss, Regret

"There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray's assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann."

Literature, Art, Connection, Fiction

"I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,And "cancer of the pancreas" to her."

Grief, Loss, Parenting, Memory