Despair Quote by Elizabeth Finn

“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary,…

— Donna Tartt

“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I…

— Ashley Earley

“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“And that I miss her, that I need her, and this kind of missing, this kind of need, the kind of emptiness it leaves…

— Courtney Summers

“I forced myself to keep my eyes open so I could memorize every curve of her face. I wanted the image burned so deeply…

— Teresa Mummert

“That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can never go…

— Melina Marchetta

“I lay on my bed in late afternoon, watching a patch of light move across the floor, my throat tight, my body still. This…

— Laura Nowlin

“The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the hopeful girl I would never…

— Leigh Bardugo

“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning…

— John Green

“She never looked twice at me in the daytime, but at night, as I lay in bed and drifted toward sleep, we ran away…

— Stephen King

“In the mornings I awoke with salty crust of tears around my eyes--my grief struggling to surface when I was in my weakest, lost…

— Chandra Prasad