Despondency Quote by Kate Chopin

. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as…

— Karen Cushman

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

— Gustave Flaubert

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.”

— Markus Zusak

She sat long alone in the dark; refusing to go out in the light of day, to face the possibility that life goes on…

— Sara Bokhari

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

— Lois Lowry

When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had…

— Dan Wells

She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an…

— Ayn Rand

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as…

— Tanith Lee

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and…

— Anna Godbersen

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

— Melissa de la Cruz

In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did…

— Cormac McCarthy