"What evenings, walks, despair in bed and on the sofa are still before me, worse than those I have already endured." - Franz Kafka

"(am I angry at myself, or have I sunk into a kind of quiet bemused despair…)" - Joyce Carol Oates

"I’ll join with black despair against my soul. And to myself become an enemy." - William Shakespeare

"I must dare to be truly unhappy. Desperate. And not save myself, short-circuit the despair." - Susan Sontag

"If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone." - Anne Sexton

"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain." - Catherine Breillat

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