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There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life." -Laura Brown-


Michael Cunningham


#hopelessness #life #loneliness #spirit #death

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.


Bernardin de Saint-Pierre


#death #desperation #french-literature #life #paul-et-virginie

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.


Toni Morrison


#longing #dreams

If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.


Anthon St. Maarten


#blessing #blessings #blessings-in-disguise #curse #dark-night-of-the-soul

I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped up and roared through my belly. My fingers yanked him close, digging into his back, and his arms crushed me to him as if wanting to meld us together. I knotted my fingers in his hair and bit down on his bottom lip, making him groan. His lips parted, and my tongue swept in to dance with his. There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be.


Julie Kagawa


#desperation #forbidden-fruit #love #love

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.


Mihail Drumeş


#giving-up #leaving #love #separation #solitude

Brianna peered through the large transparent window into the sea of plexiglass cradles. Each infant, so small and precious, belonged to someone. Someone that cared for them. Someone that loved them. Brianna sniffled and turned away, unable to bear the thought that she had no one.


J.E.B. Spredemann


#life #loneliness #life

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.


Benjamin Disraeli


#genius #powerful #sometimes

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.


William S. Burroughs


#believed #change #desperation #drastic #drastic change

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.


James Thurber


#lead #lives #men #noisy #nowadays






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