#despair

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain. ↗

— Elena Ferrante

#divorce #elena-ferrante #love #pain #the-days-of-abandonment

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#delight #despair #dreadful #end #feeds

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny. ↗

— David Sedaris

#dark #despairing #funny #i #other

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#believing #comfort #darkness #despair #gives

No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#bush #despair #even #george #george bush

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#despair #die #down #life #negative

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it. ↗

— Robert Stack

#comes #despair #doing #keep #love

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#army #ball games #banners #despair #field

Despair has its own calms. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#despair #own