Despair Quote by Joseph von Eichendorff

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“...I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never…

— John Knowles

“The world is too fucking big. Sometimes, I can't even carry myself through all the love and fear.”

— Sherman Alexie

“It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.”

— Louise Fitzhugh

“I'm completely alone in the world; it frightens me to be so empty and lost.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”

— Anonymous

“I just sat there, staring out towards the darkness of the ocean and the starlight flashing off the crests of the waves and knew…

— Carrie Ryan

“I was seeing the world, and it turned out to be a lonely place.”

— Tyler Mcmahon

“It felt like there was a whole world inside her.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I was shaking so hard, I could barely get the door unlocked. I just got the door shut behind me when I sank to…

— Dakota Madison

“In a world filled with people, some happy, others like me, I feel so all alone.”

— Mary B. Morrison