“And then, quite suddenly, summer was over.
He knew it first when walking downtown. Tom grabbed his arm and pointed gasping, at the dimestore window. They stood there unable to move because of the things from another world displayed so neatly, so innocently, so frighteningly, there.
"Pencils, Doug, ten thousand pencils!"
"Oh, my gosh!"
"Nickel tablets, dime tablets, notebooks, erasers, water colors, rulers, compasses, a hundred thousand of them!"
"Don't look. Maybe it's just a mirage."
"No," moaned Tom in despair. "School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer's even over! Ruin half the vacation!”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“No one's despair is like my despair--”
Source: The Wild Iris
“Though my initial progress did not look or feel like progress, I believe it was a kind of progress, that of just staying in place, of not slipping backward into despair.”
Source: Atmospheric Disturbances
“Odasaku...' Dazai said softly. 'Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen from here on out. There's gotta be something...”
Source: 文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
“No halfway emotions can exist in a heart swollen with utmost despair.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“And now, the entire world has fallen into despair. In other words, if you see despair as the enemy, then your enemy...is the world itself!”
“The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.”
Source: The Rings of Saturn
“I feel like such an idiot. That I ever thought I could have a really good life.”
Source: The Great Believers
“But for a long time, altogether unnoticed by his comrades, there had ripened in his soul a dark contempt for mankind; contempt mingled with despair and painful, almost deadly fatigue.”
Source: Seven Who Were Hanged
“Never let the situation become exaggerated beyond its true reality.”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus