"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." - George Eliot

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
- MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach

"I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning."
- STEVIE SMITH, Not Waving But Drowning

"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Valery, Paul

"It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless." - Weinstein, Howard