Despair Quote by Philip Roth

“The only sound was Alvin’s snorts of laughter. “Dude, you’re the only one standing there! Who are you talking to, the vegetable dip?” he…

— Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

“If I could make my heart hard," said Alvin, "I'd be a worse man, but a happier one.”

— Orson Scott Card

“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for all the things he did. I was crying…

— Ray Bradbury

“I sat up so fast I practically broke the sound barrier, but it was Cal standing in my doorway, not Archer. I heaved a…

— Rachel Hawkins

“norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he had found…

— Stephen King

“I wanted to cry. I wanted to hide. I wanted to drink. I wanted to... wrap my arms around him and never let go.…

— Sibylla Matilde

“Would my head were a head of lettuce. I drove the last car over the Sagamore Bridge before the state police closed it off.…

— Peter Orner

“AND EVEN THOUGH his face was wet with tears he wasn't supposed to cry when he was alive, I couldn't see him as anything…

— Jason Reynolds

“Only my complacent Mona crossed the crack with a simple step . . . She wasn’t depressed or angry. In fact, she seemed to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again. "BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise. "But I fell over again" said Hiccup. "But with…

— Cressida Cowell

“I let a single tear fall. I shouldn’t have done that, because once I started, I couldn’t stop, and all of a sudden, I…

— Lucy Mihajlich

“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though…

— James Baldwin