Soul Crushing Quotes

“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it garbage day? I’m trapped in the pungent fog, in the dreary suburban-style shops, the rat race of city life. The city, even on the west coast, has the power to beat us down, to suck us of passion, to crush our dreams.”
― Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

“I didn't calm down, Scotty.
I
think
I
lost
a
little
bit
of
my
mind
that
day.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“De pronto me di cuenta de que tanto ella como yo estábamos hablando con una franqueza hiriente que amenazaba traspasar la sinceridad y convertirse en un casi equivalente de la hipocresía.”
― Mario Benedetti