Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All the while, Signý, caged in his dungeons, hearing all the painful details of...

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its...

Trust in the Lord brings much hope, joy and peace.

Don’t waste your energy on negative thoughts.

Hold on to hope and positive thoughts; strength for thy soul.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

Don’t degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings

I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I’m no one.

I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence...

Satan’s despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.

I am so well acquainted with despair,I know not how to hope…

Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with normal people perfectly unaware of the disease turning Perry’s body inside out. Fucking normal people.

February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps…Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want...

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the...

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

Soru buydu. Onda aradığım neydi? Bende eksik olan neydi ? İyi bir yaşamım yok muydu? Yaşamımın giderek geri dönülmez bir biçimde daralan bir dehlize dönüşmekte olduğunu kime anlatabilirim? Çektiğim işkenceyi, uykusuz gecelerimi, intiharla flört etmemi...

Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles longCoiled, one thousand miles deepEyes like candy, it has eyes like candyHard and blue, but soft as kittens feetOut of sight or in the element of lightIt could...

I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy.

The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly...

The IdealThis is where I came from.I passed this way.This should not be shameful Or hard to say.A self is a self. It is not a screen. A person should respectWhat he has been. This...

It’s funny how despair can soon become an old companion

The Saviour is a life-giving light.

Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar’s flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote to him. Uncle Saleh was across the world. A few years back, getting...

You shall overcome every limitation and soar high on Eagle’s wing.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is “not lost in loss itself.

The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go.

I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I had walked with kings and conversed in languages never heard in this land....

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it...

Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one’s personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.

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.

You say she’s mine…but honestly, I don’t think she was ever mine to begin with.

It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get...

He told police he had an argument with his girlfriend, he was in despair, … This defendant was trying to end his own life.

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are,...

And I am weary of the anguishIncreasing winters bear;Weary to watch the spirit languishThrough years of dead despair.So, if a tear, when thou art dying,Should haply fall from me,It is but that my soul is...

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the...

The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.

Do not give up. Be strong!

Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable.

‘Maybe you out to go back there.’ ‘Can’t. Gotta stay where… where I know what’s what.’ Where I don’t forget what I am, and that I don’t deserve anything better. Would wreck anything better. ‘I...

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can’t return from it.

Sometimes…you can cry until there’s nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And,...

He looks forlornly ahead of him, gazing at the road but looking at nothing in particular. The whole world is one big giant ball of light to him, and he feels like a bug inside...

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being...

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence...