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“Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation.”
“Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even ones own self) when it is said of a man in despair, "He is consuming himself." For precisely this it is...”
“Let the darkness transform into rockacross the wilderness of my memory”
“Suffocate despair with prayers.”
“my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.”
“You must think I dont know whats keeping you up at night. You must think were so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isnt that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anything, ...”
“Just as the weak, despairing person is unwilling to hear anything about any consolation eternity has for him, so a person in such despair does not want to hear anything about it, either, but for a ...”
“All their lives they had slaved at some kind of dull, heavy labor, behind desks and counters, in the fields and at tedious machines of all sorts, saving their pennies and dreaming of the leisure th...”
“Spent my whole life, Morganith went on, staring miserably into her drink, thinkin that out there somewhere was ah woman who would love me incredibly and I would love her incredibly. Like ah fire co...”
“Death finds you in such strange poses. How long can you cry, until the rivers gone and dry.”
“How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?”
“The more she laughs, the more he ups the ante with his clowning. By the time he finishes he will have run through all the secret mysteries of laughter that human beings have ever understood, mobili...”
“Dividing earth and skyis not the right wayto think about this wholeness.It only allows one to liveat a more precise address--were I to be searched forI'd be found much faster.My distinguishing mark...”
“One of the greatest dangers of great dreams in your youth is waking up to despair as an adult.”
“Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding a tower. It would be lifted by the great ghost...”
“Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.”
“There is hope for the living souls.”
“May your faith be firm.”
“In the midst of uncertainty, Doubt stealthy in. And in the face of Doubt, One must hold steadfast to Hope.”
“The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.”
