I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.
Juliet MarillierTags: suicide sad hopelessness devastating
My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: weeping grief unhappiness resignation defeat hopelessness giving-up richelle discouragement richelle-goodrich
There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit crumbles. Some say that after much grief and drowning in tears, it is possible to pick up the pieces and carefully repair what was shattered.
I say nay.
For the chains of despair have no key, and the soul destroyed by that monster can never hope to be unaffected. There are things done that cannot be undone.
Tags: pain despair sorrow tears destruction grief hopelessness richelle richelle-goodrich
Spoilers follow
I started reading the third act of Hamlet, and I got about two pages in when I realized there's no point.
I am never going back to school.
I am never going to the university.
I am never going to watch wolves stalk through the northern forests or elephants graze on the savanna. I am never going to have sex or get married or raise a family. I'm never going to have a first apartment, a first house, a first car. I'm never
Tags: nihilism hopelessness giving-up virus terminal-illness
And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
Ally CondieTags: hopelessness
Sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of a tunnel. Sometimes you don't even know its there
Campbell ThompsonTags: hope hopelessness perserverance
The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure."
"So what, it's stupid to even try?"
"No. It's unwise to hope."
- Something Like Stardust
Tags: wisdom failure hopelessness fatalism
In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life."
In 2010, I was the woman without hope who thought she had no life left to live.
Which woman am I today? Neither. Both were illusions.
Tags: illusions hope perfect hopelessness
Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: nature sadness despair winter trees metaphor symbolism depression snow hopelessness leaves blizzard
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: poetry sadness despair winter depression snow hopelessness coldness falling bleakness falling-apart rhyming
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