#pair

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#love #parting-ways #separation #life

Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news? ↗

— Clive Barker

#funny #life #funny

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#funny

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#evil #goodness #inspirational #love #sadness

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the clear light was already welling through his fingers, he thrust it into his bosom and held it against his heart. Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#hope #inspirational #inspirational

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#hope #life

Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#futility #hopelessness #life #life

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#life #life

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. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#future #life #life

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#children #despair #enlightenment #life