Books Quote by Anonymous

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time…

— Rodney Crowell

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person…

— Sarah Kane

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

— Ben Lerner

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

“What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?”

— Darin Strauss

“More or less the same can be said for Art Therapy, which is organized infantilism. Our class was run by a delirious young woman…

— William Styron

What's it take to bceome a sublime expounder of prose like yourself?

— Carlie

“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who I am,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write. In…

— Rukhsana Khan

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

— Jose Bergamin

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a…

— Thomas Ligotti