The reason I do not spend my days in despair and my nights in hopeless weeping simply is that I am in love with my own ruin. I the...refore deserve no sympathy, and probably shan't get it: my own profound self-compassion is enough. I am so abominably self-conscious that no smallest detail in this tragedy eludes me. Day after day I sit in the theatre of my own life and watch the drama of my own history proceeding to its close. Pray God the curtain falls at the right moment lest the play drag on into some long and tedious anticlimax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil--viz. the ...deadly atheism which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist; and that the attainment of a high ideal is a hopeless chimera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the re...st of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair,... Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness, In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its ow...n weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping thro...ugh everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soft complaining FLUTE In dying Notes discovers... The Woes of hopeless Lovers, Whose Dirge is whisper'd by the warbling LUTE.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »