"People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness."

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"People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness."

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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

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"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

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

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

Despair, Duty

"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

Despair,

"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

Despair,

"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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything."

"As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself."

"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."