When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...

But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key

Silence is where my demons lurk, taunting me endlessly day after day until the end of time...yet still I wait, revelling in their company...

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.