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I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears--
Ah, she doth depart.
William Blake
lovers
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He mus ...
Willa Cather
women
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of th ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
earthquakes | disasters
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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws & nature of the Universe ...
Thomas Hardy
science and nature
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The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if ...
D.H. Lawrence
happiness | struggle
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly d ...
D.H. Lawrence
other people
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We looked down at a glassy glittering icy place many days walking across and very deep, between enormous icy black peaks. All we l ...
Doris Lessing
death | transformation | cold, the
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Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not they back to the compass; accept ...
Herman Melville
pessimism | evil | terror
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He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow.
Wilfred Owen
injuries | war
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like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh--but smile no more.
Edgar Allan Poe
rivers | ghosts | evil
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