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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Sometimes i just want to kill myself just to see if anyone really cares.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!