Despair Quote by Charles Bukowski

“she was consumed by 2 simple things: despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more: youth and beauty”

— Charles Bukowski

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there…

— Cecelia Ahern

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they…

— Christina Rossetti

I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.

— Markus Zusak

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the…

— George Eliot

“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have?…

— Irène Némirovsky

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

— Toni Morrison

...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to…

— M.M. Kaye

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

— Betty Smith

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway