“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
― Vile Bodies
― Vile Bodies
“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”
― Suicide and the Soul
― Suicide and the Soul
“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”
― Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
― Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
“It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion”
― Kushiel's Dart
― Kushiel's Dart
“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
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