“Despair, dismay, disorientation, and delusion: the four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse are coming my way.”

“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”

“The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.”

“The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared.”

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair… Come to it any way but lightly.”

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.”

“Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.”

“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”

“Divine way is extremely difficult to tread, but you should not despair. If you have courage, true aspiration, and ardency of love, then come to this path, otherwise be silent.”

“The darkness isn't afraid of coming close to me, my fear of loneliness draws him towards me. Darkness surrounds me and despair takes hold of me. I start to torment my loneliness, and my silence begins to take my life. When I call my happiness darkness always turns happiness way. Darkness is not afraid of me coming close to me, my fear pulls it to me.”