"Despair is the source of all evil."

Despair, Evil, Darkness, Suffering

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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

Despair, Blood, Emotion, Heart, Loss

"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

"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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"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."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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"Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal."

"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

"A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe."

"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

"It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in"."

"Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down."