"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."

Despair, Patience, Heart, Emotion

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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."

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T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Despair, Nothing, Action, Resignation, Acceptance

"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

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"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

"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."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Despair, Suicide, Life, Crime, Awakening

"Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Despair, World, Pain, End

"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

"People suicide because of the board rules, they don't like it. So people suicide, they don't see any other out of this place!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Despair, Regret, Truth, Life, Power

"It's despair at the lack of 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. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Despair, Violence, Indifference, Humanity

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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

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"I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something."

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"He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn't. And there was never an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

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