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“A person changes in two ways: inspiration or despair. However, by choosing one of the two, you will make the commitment to go all the way, having a purpose for something, increasing goals, and adjusting for mistakes.”

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“The pain was unbearable. She wanted to cry or scream, but the crawling hollow ache had plugged and sandpapered away all her expressions of self. Those indulgences had been banished forever. Suicide had always been a fiction. A thought that had only ever been a quote in her head. Something for the underclasses, those weak in mind or purpose. Poor people and cowards. Now it sat on her heart like a warm toad. Cherishing the place as a natural habitat.”

Pain Despair Suicide

Book:The Erstwhile

Source: The Erstwhile

“Ah yes—could it really be said that people who had no hope in their hearts were alive? Sina thought not. Well, of course they ‘jogged along,’ as she expressed it; they could do that all right; but actually what Sina called life—that she did not think was to be found in those who had nothing to hope for. This was Clever Sina’s opinion on the subject.”

Hope Despair Privilege Snobbery

Book:En dødsnat

Source: En dødsnat

“The government cannot control people's hearts, because it cannot meet every need of every citizen. But why does it rule? Not really! When the government rules the hearts of the people it will not exist, because the heart has a trait of despair and desparation.”

Government Citizens Despair Desparation People S Hearts

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”

Life Death Despair Value Vanity Stoicism

Book:The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“You're in the middle of something wonderful, something so tremendous you may never experience it again. But you can't really understand how wonderful it is. That makes you impatient. And that, in turn, leads to despair”

Feelings Despair First Love Fifteen Year Old

Book:Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“I wish I could help him. I wish I could help the dozens of other Sufferers - all the victims of wounds, maulings, burns, diseases, incipient malnutrition, and melancholic despair - aboard this entrapped ship and her sister ship. I wish I could help myself, for already I am showing the early signs of Nostalgia and Debility. But there is little that I - or any surgeon in the Year of Our Lord 1848 - can do. God help us all.”

Horror Despair Hopelessness Dan Simmons The Terror

Book:The Terror

Source: The Terror

“How does every person not cry out all the time?”

Life Poetry Poem Despair Difficulties

Author:Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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