"My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn."

Despair, Water, Death, Struggle, Life

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"My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn."

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"My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Despair, Water, Death, Struggle, Life

"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

"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Despair, Death, Escape, Life

"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Despair, Feeling

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

Ben Okri, Nigerian Poet

Despair,

"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

Philip Massinger, British Poet

Despair, Doubt

"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

"Despair is the source of all evil."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Despair, Evil, Darkness, Suffering

"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Despair, Dream, Paradise, Reality, God

"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."

Menander, Greek Poet

Despair, Diligence, Labor

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"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."

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"The person you became with her is worth being."

Identity, Transformation, Relationship, Values

"It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."

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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

Risk, Desperation, Decision, Mistake, Emotion

"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."

Control, Intention, Mindset, Thought

"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."

Loneliness, Fear, Loss, Emotion

"I wish I could tell him that we're going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I'm supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away."

Struggle, Help, Emotion, Communication

"What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong."

Strength, Self, Control, Emotion