Confidence Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“without hope, what is to sustain life, but the fear of annihilation—the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread—I cannot bear…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make up for…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I can’t help but think about the concept of loneliness, of having no one – how tangible melancholy is.”

— Carol Mason

“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it really was,…

— Nina George

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there…

— Haruki Murakami

“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely”

— Patricia Dsouza

“what the melancholy among us sometimes know, though may not be able to articulate, is that coming to the end of our resources may…

— Sharon McMahon Moffitt

“This is not written for the young or the light of heart, not for the tranquil species of men whose souls are content with…

— B.E. Scully

“Between hope and despair treads a life without love!”

— Manoj Vaz

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here of a…

— Diana Gabaldon