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“Help me,” I sobbed. “I beg you, help me.” My eyes burned, butno tears came. I had lost the basic human ability to weep. Human…Iam no longer human. “Destroy me. Take pity and send me on my way.”
“Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.”
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if all that was good in me had hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains.”
“Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spok...”
“He looks forlornly ahead of him, gazing at the road but looking at nothing in particular. The whole world is one big giant ball of light to him, and he feels like a bug inside it, waiting to be squ...”
“You want to know what the saddest part is Tess?” I said, sounding choked up.“What’s that Josh?”I felt my heart constricting as the brutal truth flowed from my lips. “You say she’s mine...but honest...”
“'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's w”
“Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my...”
“As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple...”
“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...”
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a...”
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,—Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?”
“In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.”
“He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.”
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with mysel...”
“Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human bei...”
“Although secular fundamentalist “progressives” might believe in a future “golden age,” such an age does not exist. The future that they herald is merely one of gathering gloom and ever darkening cl...”
“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”
“If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose.”
“you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer”
