"Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression."

Despair, Darkness, Suffering, Isolation

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"Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression."

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"Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die."

John Green, American Author

Despair, Self, Hate, Emotion, Truth

"You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can't see today. Patti, I don't know anything."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Despair, Tears, Confusion, Emotion

"For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Despair, Loneliness, Execution, Hope, Hope

"Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Despair, Nature, Escape, Passion

"Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Despair, Loneliness, Body, Love, Will

"And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Despair, Horror, Fear, Decay, Grief

"So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Despair, Addiction, Waiting, Isolation

"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Despair, Ignorance, Destruction, Awareness, Consequences

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"Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey."

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