"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."

Despair, Self, Isolation, Pain

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"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."

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"After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely."

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"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

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

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"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Despair, Desperation, Distress, Emotion, Crisis

"Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows."

Rick Yancey, American Author

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

John Donne, British Poet

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

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Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"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."

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"Where did you live before you came here?' I asked. 'The moon,' he said smoothly. 'We left because the place had no atmosphere."

Exploration

"The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn't sure who he was anymore. Or who I was."

Fear

"I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length."

Emotion

"You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years."

Relationship

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