Abyr Bathory

“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”
― Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies

“For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.”
― Cox, Michael, The Meaning of Night

“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot