“A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone.”

“If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone.”

“The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

“Then black despair,
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone.”

“It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.”

“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”

“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.”

“I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.”

“Failure alone remains as the one single accomplishable experience;”