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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. -- Edgar Allan Poe
abysmally beshitted. -- Stephen King
I was horrified, but this was just as well, because step by step we had to become accustomed to a terrible and immense horror. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books. -- Daniel Handler
A word to the wise is infuriating. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Growing up, she found, was a heartbreaking endeavor. -- Kiersten White
Misery crouches beside me, ever larger and ever gentler; pain takes an interest, becomes huge and kind; terror flutters up, and it doesn't even frighten me anymore. And that'a the most desolate thing of all. -- Joseph Roth
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Truth is so often disconcerting. -- Rafael Sabatini
There is nothing more abominable than being in a state of bodily exhaustion and mental irritation; I was too lethargic to get up and seek some means of occupying my mind, but I was too uneasy to fall asleep. -- Elizabeth Peters
I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity -- Franz Kafka
Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant. -- Dan Ariely
To have to perform a scene, a punishment scene like that, was extremely unpleasant. It bothered me to hurt you, Jessica," he growled. "You will let me hold you, and offer me some comfort in return. -- Cherise Sinclair
I listened to the whine in my voice with a detached fascination. It was a false question. No answer would have pacified me. I had simply given in to a perverse need to ask, to expose and torment myself, and as soon as I heard the words, I experienced both relief and humiliation. -- Siri Hustvedt
It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief. -- Amitav Ghosh
To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. -- Manti Te'o
Devastated should be reserved for mothers -- Colleen Hoover
Though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it -- Herman Melville
incredibly relieved to see that he was a significantly -- R.j. Creed
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. -- Haruki Murakami
Unhappy is a nice word. -- Jose Mourinho
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am, of course, delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted. -- Terry Pratchett
I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine. -- Jeanne Calment
She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone. -- Tina J. Richardson
Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. -- Ambrose Bierce
perceptibly with anger. "I -- E.l. James
Dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering ... -- Roberto Bolano
Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying. -- Natasha Lyonne
Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. -- Jane Austen
It was both exhilarating and terrifying to discover that someone needed you as much as you needed them. -- Fiona Neill
both touching and somehow repulsive. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. -- William Shakespeare
strangely ambivalent about -- Nicholas Sparks
Devastated ... grief-stricken. You were alive, but the way you looked ... I didn't think you'd ever recover. And it tore me apart to think of that happening to you so young. -- Richelle Mead
This was distressing. She felt like she'd done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears. -- Charlotte Bronte
She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper. -- D.h. Lawrence
How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed. -- James Richardson
The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror. -- David Foster Wallace
He must be suffering, too. She had noted the weary sag of his shoulders, the quivering lips, the tear- filled eyes. Somehow she had never thought of him as hurting- of being capable of understanding how she felt. -- Janette Oke
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society. -- Cecil Taylor
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play. -- Nick Hornby
I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted. -- Barack Obama
Astonishment is the proper response to reality. -- Terence Mckenna
I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live? -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was helplessly captured; and hopelessly enraptured. -- Brownell Landrum
Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I have the feeling I've been -
unpleasant. -- Rachel Caine
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. -- Donna Tartt
His expression was somehow both cruel and dripping with affection. Devastating. And I thought perhaps I'd lost a piece of my mind, a part of my soul, because my mouth watered and my body hummed with need that bordered on unhealthy. Vivid. Violent. Dangerous. -- A.l. Jackson
Grief is a peculiar emotion. -- Sebastian Faulks
Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility. -- Edgar Allan Poe
We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions - how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness! -- George Eliot
She was beautiful in a damaged way. -- Elliott Holt
And I myself was wrung with emotion
it was heartbreaking, it was absurd, it was deeply perplexing, to think of his life lost in limbo, dissolving. -- Oliver Sacks
- I have an anguished, painful need to speak with you. -- Fernando Pessoa
Hey, back to me, guys. I'm supposed to be traumatized, and you're supposed to be making me feel better. So far, you suck at it. -- James Dashner
There was sadness in his eyes, a sadness so profound it was almost frightening. -- Cassandra Clare
The territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace. -- Gail Caldwell
I had a very difficult upbringing. -- Luke Evans
Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well -- Oliver Sacks
More grievous than tears is the sight of them. -- Antonio Porchia
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. -- Lawrence Welk
...the hardest word to swallow is almost. -- R. Ys Perez
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all. -- Catherynne M Valente
[Mr. Collins] began by stating that he could find no words to express his shock and abhorrence, and then proceeded to find a great number, few of them appropriate and none of them helpful. -- P.d. James
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later - again, for its own mysterious reasons. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which--ironically enough--genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed. -- Theodore Dalrymple
I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off. -- Jasmine Warga
when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this -- Daphne Du Maurier
I felt dichotomously dismayed and dazedly giddy by the prospect. -- Penny Reid
Indescribably delirious! -- M. M.
trenchant questions she'd asked. 'Pretty? -- Stav Sherez
Misery loves company
Tragically -- Kim Holden
Her grief grieved her. His devastated her. -- Arundhati Roy
You made me feel less alone;
you made me feel not quite so
deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked. -- Morrissey
To be loved is very demoralizing. -- Katharine Hepburn
Well, I had the most appalling childhood. -- Bruce Robinson
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious. -- Calvin Trillin
I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry
I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart
God knows what its name was
that tears started to my eyes. -- Charles Dickens
I wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me. -- Anne Rice
Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done. -- Andrew J. Bernstein
If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you. -- Autumn Doughton
A reprisal of this magnitude ... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless. -- Moshe Sharett
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone -- Alfred Tennyson
Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting. -- Norman Giddan
Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally. -- Victoria De Los Angeles
unfavorable feeling, -- Alexandre Dumas
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live. -- Marcel Proust
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant. -- Rosanne Cash
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. -- Franz Kafka
A pause; it endured horribly. -- F Scott Fitzgerald
I distress you; I draw fast to an end. -- Charles Dickens
How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling. -- Emma Cline
How much farther does anguish penetrate in psychology than psychology itself! -- Marcel Proust
But it is always dreadful when the pictures in front of one's eyes become meaningless and the real word is there instead and seems meaningless, too. -- Dodie Smith
My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion. -- Herman Melville
(He) found that articulating those feelings made him feel morose. -- Stephen Lloyd Jones
