Quote by Laini Taylor

“Despair kills everything, despair is a death without sent.”

— أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny

“She had wept until she was scrapped raw inside, empty but for the leaden weight of every memory of the life she had left,…

— Kali Wallace

“Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.”

— Yann Martel

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter, makes you…

— Will Ferguson

“She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing that came…

— Kate Chopin

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“She had got beyond despair.”

— Michael McDowell

“Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward and collapsed…

— V.S. Kemanis

“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was…

— Diana Gabaldon

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin