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“To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.”
Neil Gaiman
Emotions
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Despair
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Introspection
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Feeling
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Darkness
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“For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.”
Neil Gaiman
Suicide
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Despair
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Metaphor
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Choice
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Darkness
3.
“Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depression
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Exhaustion
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Despair
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Daily Life
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Mental Health
4.
“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loneliness
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Helplessness
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Despair
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Observation
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Human Condition
5.
“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Despair
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Spiritual Crisis
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Time
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Emotional Struggle
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Human Condition
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“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loss
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Emptiness
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Change
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Emotion
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Despair
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“Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom
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Despair
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Human Connection
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Social Behavior
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Emotional State
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“Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom
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Despair
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Societal Issues
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Public Authority
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Emotional Well-being
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“One clings desperately to some vain hope, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and then it breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Hope
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Despair
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Awakening
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Emotional Cycle
,
Self-deception
10.
“The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.”
W.H. Auden
Despair
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Isolation
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Mortality
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Defeat
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Historical Perspective
11.
“I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.”
Jack Kerouac
Religion
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Suicide
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Alcoholism
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Despair
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Self-destruction
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“As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk.”
Jack Kerouac
Escapism
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Drinking
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Solitude
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Despair
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Simplicity
13.
“Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?”
Jack Kerouac
Despair
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Connection
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Empathy
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Personal Struggles
,
Human Condition
14.
“Down in Denver, all I did was die.”
Jack Kerouac
Despair
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City
,
Existence
,
Emotional Struggle
,
Urban Life
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“I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.”
Langston Hughes
Despair
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Confusion
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Metaphor
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Emotional Turmoil
,
Poetic Imagery
16.
“All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.”
John Milton
Hope
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Fear
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Grace
,
Despair
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Damnation
17.
“The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.”
John Milton
Satan
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Despair
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Strength
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Rebellion
,
Fallen Angel
18.
“O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!”
John Milton
Darkness
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Despair
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Blindness
,
Hopelessness
,
Personal Lament
19.
“Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.”
John Milton
Despair
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Hell
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Hopelessness
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Suffering
,
Damnation
20.
“Where no hope is left, is left no fear.”
John Milton
Hope
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Fear
,
Despair
,
Human Condition
,
Emotional State
21.
“Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.”
John Milton
Despair
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Self-torment
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Hell
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Inescapable Nature
,
Inner Turmoil
22.
“What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.”
John Milton
Hope
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Despair
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Resilience
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Human Spirit
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Emotional Strength
23.
“Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.”
John Milton
Conscience
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Despair
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Memory
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Regret
,
Moral Awakening
24.
“The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”
John Milton
Darkness
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Loneliness
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Despair
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Nature
,
Emotional State
25.
“The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Despair
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Strength
,
Adversity
,
Human Nature
,
Transformation
26.
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Stagnation
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Despair
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Time
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Poetic Imagery
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Philosophical Reflection
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Emotional Weight
27.
“Yet what business had I with hope?”
Edgar Allan Poe
Hope
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Despair
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Philosophical Inquiry
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Emotional Struggle
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Existential Reflection
28.
“Other friends have flown before – On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Then the bird said, “Nevermore.” Startled.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Loss
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Longing
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Despair
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Poetic Imagery
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Existential Reflection
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Emotional Depth
29.
“My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Despair
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Fear
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Existential Dread
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Philosophical Insight
,
Emotional Depth
,
Poetic Imagery
30.
“To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Humanity
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Knowledge
,
Despair
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Philosophical Insight
,
Emotional Depth
,
Psychological Understanding
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