despair Quotes

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

I admire people who destroy themselves.