Lauren Kate Quotes

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

I cry sometimes. I get very upset.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.