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

Despair, Selfishness, Truth, Emotion

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

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"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

"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Despair, Fact

"It is true, in bad time everything turn away from person.My time is really bad .today again even death turn face from me and go away.Hate it."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

Despair, Neglect, Pain, Isolation

"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

"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

Despair, Indifference, Mind

"Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Despair, Light, Freedom, Emotion

"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

"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman

Despair,

"How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this doom-struck craziness? This grinding of teeth, this pouring of sweat, this pounding of blood in the temples, small blue veins gone amok in front of the ears, sixty and seventy hours with no sleep."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Despair, Fatigue, Stress, Health, Anxiety

"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."

William Congreve, English Poet

Despair, Flags, Invention, Study

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"Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved-or not quite evolved enough-to bear the awful burden of its own existence."

Psychology

"But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness."

Hope

"It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!"

Humor

"It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war, it was our fellow humans."

History

"I, um, I thought you might want this back.I pull out the battered old teddy bear and hold it toward him. He frowns and shakes his head and doesn't reach for it, and I feel like he's punched me in the gut.Then my baby brother slaps that damned bear out of my hand and crushes his face against my chest, and beneath the odors of sweat and strong soap I can smell it, his smell, Sammy's, my brother's."

Family

"The experience was like running into someone you hadn't seen since middle school - you recognize them, but what you really notice is the ways they've changed. They don't match your memory of how they should look and for a second you're thrown off, because your memory of them IS them."

Life

"The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us."

Philosophy

"The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long."

Nature

"Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops."

Society

"And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead."

Philosophy