Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
May SartonTags: strength pain nature despair survival
Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.
Julian BarnesFor Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.
Tags: life death despair night hopelessness
Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
Leonid AndreyevTags: life cynicism death despair
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
J.R.R. TolkienI need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
Henry MillerTags: solitude silence despair
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion
Jacqueline CareyTags: despair
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
Andrew SolomonTags: love loss despair depression
Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..
Dr. SeussTags: life inspiration despair winning
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: strength despair courage hope darkness heroes fall rise
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