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“Scream. Scream in front of a mirror or something.”

—Charles Bukowski, from Selected Letters Vol. 4

“I have found that battling despair does not mean closing my eyes to the enormity of the tasks of effecting change, nor ignoring the strength and the barbarity of the forces aligned against us.”

—Audre Lorde

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” ”

— Søren Kirkegaard 

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” 

—John Keats, from letter to Benjamin Bailey, 25 May 1818

Despair

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Despair

oh despair, you’re there through my wasted days
you’re there through my wasted nights
you’re there through my wasted years
you’re there through my wasted life

“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.” 

—Bell Hooks, from All About Love: New Visions (William Morrow, 2001)

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