“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars… etc. - is sure to be noticed.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don’t, then everything is over with here, once and for all.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”— Charlie Chaplin, Henri Verdoux, Charles Chaplin, imdb.com
“You were better to the ones that were worse for you. And worse to the one that was better for you.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars… etc. - is sure to be noticed.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Even when we give in to despair some secret part of us knows that there must be another way.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“If you are in a pit of stress or despair, don’t succumb to defeat. Don’t accept that difficult place as your fate.”— Tracie Miles, amazon.com
“You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.”— J.D. Stroube, amazon.com
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”— Marion Zimmer Bradley, amazon.com
“Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.com
“It is a hard cycle to conquer. The body is working against you. And because of this, you feel even more despair. Which only amplifies the imbalance. It takes uncommon strength to live with these things. But I have seen that strength over and over again.”— David Levithan, amazon.com