"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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"It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Despair, Patience, Heart, Emotion

"In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Despair, Death, Existence, Emotion, Resignation

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

Joan Baez, American Musician

Despair, End, May

"Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Despair, Emotion, Loss, Darkness

"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

Despair, Duty

"Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Despair, Escape, Existence, Life

"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."

Avi Arad, Israeli Businessman

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"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Despair, Weariness, Ignorance, Existence

"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair."

Andrew Motion, English Poet

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"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore."

Recovery

"I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid."

Social

"I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin."

Trauma

"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."

Uncertainty

"It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either."

Existentialism

"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding."

Acceptance

"I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us."

Trauma

"Write about the emotions you fear the most."

Art

"Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle."

Talent

"I won't take a real nap. I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to close my eyes, just stay safe under the covers and breathe."

Wellness