#despair

In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#beautiful-description #despair #emotions #karou #beauty

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. ↗

— Henry Miller

#silence #solitude #music

I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope ↗

— Sarah Kane

#love

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair... ↗

— John Geddes

#dreams #hope #poetry-quotes #sleep #terrible

I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death. ↗

— David Herbet

#despair #death

Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#death #despair #dystopia #hope #life

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. ↗

— James Frey

#friendship #healing #friendship

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#love #night #love

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#endings #feelings #grief #grieve #grieving

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be. ↗