The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.
I wish I could help him. I wish I could help the dozens of other Sufferers - all the victims of wounds, maulings, burns, diseases, incipient malnutrition, and melancholic despair - aboard this entrapp...
Le Goût du néantMorne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte, L’Espoir, dont l’épéron attisait ton ardeur, Ne veut plus t’enfourcher! Couche-toi sans pudeur, Vieux cheval dont le pied à chaque obstacl...
Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.
Sometimes you just gotta hope for the hope of having hope some day.
Sometimes, when people look at me, I can see the pity in their eyes. All I want is hope, but neither of us can give it to each other.
He began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.
I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to sho...
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Gur...
I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame...
Keep hoping until hope dies; remember, however, that hope never dies! Just take good steps with faith and hope!
[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves...
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...
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