"You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy."

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"You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy."

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"I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Despair, Desperation, Hope, Survival, Faith

"I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Despair, Self, Isolation, Pain

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Despair, Ignorance, Destruction, Awareness, Consequences

"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

Despair, Violence, Humanity, Ethics

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Despair, Feeling, Man

"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

"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

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Despair, London, Man, Paris

"Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Despair, Certainty, Future, Emotion

"I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything."

Robin Hobb, American Author

Despair, Sensitivity, Regret, Self-Worth, Sadness

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"That's all nonviolence is - organized love."

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"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."

Nothing

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."

Violence

"Action is the antidote to despair."

Action

"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"

Men

"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"

Opinion

"Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence."

Non-violence

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."

People

"Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry."

Men

"Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."

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