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“I promised me that it will all be poetry. Instead, it was and was and was big nothing, materialized in loss.”

Book:SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere

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“Feliz is our lone jaguar. The last jaguar we had before him died of despair. That wasn't the official cause of death, of course not, but we all knew it. The rumor goes that the zoo's owners, the Pinkton family, paid an obscene amount to acquire another jaguar, probably the only one on Earth, given the state of the countries in which the creature's natural habitat once existed. Feliz was plucked out of the last few acres of the Amazon as the bulldozers waited, like customers impatiently hovering while a buffet is prepared. So Feliz is kind of a big deal. He doesn't appear cognizant of this fact, however. If anything, he looks to be on a mission to wear away the floor of his enclosure until he drops right through the earth and out of this life. He paces without cease. His nails are worn to stubs and his mouth hangs open in a perpetual rictus that wrecks your heart. He longs to forget all this, and to be forgotten.”

Nature Despair Animals Zoos Endangered Species Jaguars

Book:The Island of Last Things

Source: The Island of Last Things

“Despair is the enemy of action.”

Action Despair

Book:City of Villains

Source: City of Villains

“All men have aimed at, found and lost; Black out; Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.”

Despair Tragedy Human Condition

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Their Captain's announcement was listened to by the throng of standing sailors in a dumbness like that of a seated congregation of believers in hell listening to the clergyman's announcement of his Calvinistic text.”

Despair Authority Doctrine Oppression Dogma Hopelessness Powerlessness Foreboding

Book:Billy Budd and Other Tales

Source: Billy Budd and Other Tales

“...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.”

Inspirational Inspirational Quotes Hope Inspiring Inspirational Attitude

Book:Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination

Source: Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination

“Her eyes opened and then rolled into the back of her head, showing off those horrible bright whites with their convoluted red maps. She laughed, groaned, and said in [a] small, tight whisper, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god...[I can still hear them]”

Horror Despair Posession

Book:A Head Full of Ghosts

Source: A Head Full of Ghosts

“We were all going to do. There was no way out. We fluttered like drowning moths.”

Despair Futility Existential Dread No Escape

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“We were all going to die. There was no way out. We fluttered like drowning moths.”

Despair Hopelessness Futility Existential Dread No Escape

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“But it's not the beginning; it's the end. It's just coming towards me in slow motion, so I can't make out the shape of it.”

Grief Despair Motherhood

Book:Tilt

Source: Tilt

“It's like life is this powerful river, of doing laundry and buying groceries and driving to work and scrolling on my phone, and the weekends are so short.”

Life Despair Motherhood

Book:Tilt

Source: Tilt

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