Convince Quote by Melody Beattie

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing,…

— Halle Berry

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart…

— Sri Aurobindo

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire…

— Anthony Loyd

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed…

— Matt de la Pena

I was unhappy and miserable during the first 28 years of my life...The things that I went through as a kid were horrendous. And…

— Tyler Perry

From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow…

— Banana Yoshimoto

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

— Julian Barnes

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed.…

— Julian Barnes

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to…

— Hermann Hesse

I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It…

— Sarah Orne Jewett