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“...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but if you conquer despair, no deeper pit remains to trap you.”
“Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.”
“Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:”
“How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go?”
“So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm nev...”
“Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!”
“Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.”
“Youve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled into a fetal position. Regardless of how diff...”
“Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give ones loss a form and dimension so that it might be loss and not simply a hopeless haunting. It can ...”
“Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.”
“Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.”
“Have you ever felt happy and miserable at the same time? I sighed.Yes. Hutch sat up. He threw the covers back and got out of bed. He opened up the blinds sending rays of bright sunlight into his ro...”
“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”
“I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the ...”
“A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.”
“He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red, but her gaze was like a lance. Dr. Wintermute had a sudden, uncomfo...”
“First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you ...”
“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”
“I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.”
