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Two souls, alas! reside within my breast,
And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene II, spoken by FaustIn context
- Character
My peace is gone,
My heart is sore:
I never shall find it,
Ah, nevermore!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene XVIn context
- Love
Feeling is all in all:
The Name is sound and smoke,
Obscuring Heaven’s clear glow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene XVI, spoken by FaustIn context
- God
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 29 (1609)In context
- Luck
I felt a funeral in my brain,
And mourners, to and fro,
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
That sense was breaking through.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (1896)In context
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
Robert Frost1874–1963Fire and Ice (1920)In context
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Robert Frost1874–1963Acquainted with the Night (1928)In context
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIn context
- Age
And yet I cannot continue in this condition! I have to remind myself to breathe⁠—almost to remind my heart to beat!
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XXXIIIIn context
Though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter VIIIIn context
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XVIIIIn context
At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter VIIIn context
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIn context
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Life & Death
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto VIn context
- Writing