The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

He gets up only to have a cigarette for breakfast and then crawls back in bed, head high off the carcinogens.

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Every time we made love, one of us cried. Mostly it was me, out of joy, but occasionally it was her, out of despair.

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind

I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.