Determined Quote by Kate Simon

How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?

— Maria Gowen Brooks

“On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same…

— Carol Berg

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

— Cornel West

If you stand for a reason, be prepared to stand alone like a tree, and I you fall on the ground, fall like a…

— Anonymous

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

— William Walsh

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

— Geneen Roth

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the…

— Euripides

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the…

— Michel Houellebecq

Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.

— Allen Ginsberg

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

— Cesar Chavez

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

— Michel de Montaigne