"People called her 'Love', because wherever she went, there was always a trail of destruction and death left behind. People called him 'Dreams', because anyone that got near him robbed him of everything he had, until one day he died. People called her 'Hope', because she always betrayed her friends right when they needed her the most. People called him 'Death' because everyone feared him until he came near, and then they were on their hands and knees thanking him."
"Life has two storylines. One of them leads to happiness, the other one to misery. Life has two scripts, one filled with compliments and laughter, the other filled with insults and tears. Life has two meanings, one of them is unknown, the other is non-existent. But life has one end,
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With stars come fire. With dreams come disappointment. With love comes pain. With happiness come fear, misery, rage, everything that makes life not worth living. We can have emotions, but with it comes a price. Is it really worth paying? There are no refunds, so you shouldn't have chosen what you did."
"Everyone wants a dog, yet they grieve when it dies, as though they never expected that to happen. Everyone wants a dream, yet they grieve when it breaks. Everyone wants happiness, yet they grieve when it disappears. Everyone wants a life, yet when it disappears...nobody cares."
"Stars flicker. Flowers wilt. Memories fade. Dreams break. We can expect bad things to happen, but even then, it's hard to accept. I'm not saying I'm a dreamer. I'm just saying that I follow broken dreams. That way, I won't be disappointed when they don't come true. Plus, I have no other dreams to follow."
"I used to not believe in ghosts. I used to wonder if there is a hell. Sometimes a dream dies before the dreamer. Sometimes a tomb is lost in time."
"In life he followed lost hopes and broken dreams. Now he follows the people who love him. He doesn't follow his family. He doesn't follow his
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And I don't want it to. But I think I'm the only one being realistic. You guys are living in a fantasy."
"Maybe I'm crazy. How would I know? I'd be crazy. I wouldn't know."
"Anxiety is caring too much about everything, depression is giving up all hope on everything. So you're giving up hope on everything you care about when you suffer from depression and anxiety. Everything I care about is hopeless. Everything I care about doesn't matter."
"I'm lost. I need a guide. I need friends who care enough to do more than say 'it'll get better'."
"Would you just tell a starving man that he will find food? Would you just tell an imprisoned man that he'll escape somehow? So why are you just telling me that it'll get better?"
"Speeches aren't moving. I've given up hope on everything, anyway. Remember?"
"So don't try them. It doesn't work. You're horrible liars, anyway. I can see right through your lies of 'it'll get better'."
"You're horrible at lying. You're horrible at lecturing. You're horrible at convincing. You're horrible at being friends. But, you know what? I care about you
Dreams are there to make the illusion of the impossible, you must always strive to do the impossible. Two people have shown that it is possible to achieve the impossible, and those two people are Althea Gibson and Barbara Jordan, and those two people had done their absolute best to make sure that they make it, and to make sure they make they succeed in life. In the article Althea Gibson and Barbara C. Jordan, both written by Frank Lafe They were both faced with obstacles that didn't want them to succeed, they had dreams that had seemed impossible for them to be able to achieve at that time. Both of them had different environments that affected their future, the environments around people affect the person too. All of those describe the lives
Throughout the novel, crucial family members and friends of the girl that died are meticulously reshaped by her absence. Lindsey, the sister, outgrows her timidity and develops a brave, fearless demeanor, while at the same time she glows with independence. Abigail, the mother, frees herself from the barbed wire that protected her loved ones yet caused her great pain, as well as learns that withdrawing oneself from their role in society may be the most favorable choice. Ruth, the remote friend from school, determines her career that will last a lifetime. and escapes from the dark place that she was drowning in before. Thus, next time one is overcome with grief, they must remember that constructive change is guaranteed to
There is an old cliché that talks about how life isn't a bowl of cherries and that it presents hardships to everyone. Thomas Hobbes takes this cliché to another level when he says, "The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." To most this quote is depressing and dismal, but in many literary works, it portrays the plot that develops throughout the work. From Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, to Hamlet in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and even Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, the life of man doesn't seem all that it's cracked up to be. These characters face struggles that lead them to become depressed, lonely, senile, and even mad. Whether they are losing their fathers, the love of their lives, or themselves, these characters are a part of a story that shows very little light. The themes of these various works are fall across a similar spectrum as they deal with the misery that life can bring.
The presence of death in the novel looms over the characters, making each of them reflect on the
There is a phrase that people here time and time again, but don’t truly understand the meaning of it until the phrase can be applied to their own lives. “You don’t realize what you have until it’s gone.” Atwood’s poem is a direct reflection of this quote. Her poem “Bored” talks about how she hated the repetitiveness of her daily events with her father. But it was only until he had passed on was it that she truly did realize how much she missed those daily events. Sometimes people don’t understand how important others mean to them until it is too late.
Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, reveals the effects of human emotion and its power to cast an individual into a struggle against him or herself. In the beginning of the novel, the reader sees the main character, Sethe, as a woman who is resigned to her desolate life and isolates herself from all those around her. Yet, she was once a woman full of feeling: she had loved her husband Halle, loved her four young children, and loved the days of the Clearing. And thus, Sethe was jaded when she began her life at 124 Bluestone Road-- she had loved too much. After failing to 'save' her children from the schoolteacher, Sethe suffered forever with guilt and regret. Guilt for having killed her "crawling already?" baby daughter, and then regret for not having succeeded in her task. It later becomes apparent that Sethe's tragic past, her chokecherry tree, was the reason why she lived a life of isolation. Beloved, who shares with Seths that one fatal moment, reacts to it in a completely different way; because of her obsessive and vengeful love, she haunts Sethe's house and fights the forces of death, only to come back in an attempt to take her mother's life. Through her usage of symbolism, Morrison exposes the internal conflicts that encumber her characters. By contrasting those individuals, she shows tragedy in the human condition. Both Sethe and Beloved suffer the devastating emotional effects of that one fateful event: while the guilty mother who lived refuses to passionately love again, the daughter who was betrayed fights heaven and hell- in the name of love- just to live again.
The speaker introduces the idea of the natural cycle of life, where something becomes born and eventually dies. This reflects back to the Native culture where the cycle of life was much celebrated. The idea of "death and birth" symbolizes the speaker 's love that was once born to die in the end. It also symbolizes the pleasure and pain that comes with falling in love. She was born again with the new knowledge and pleasure the love had to offer. However, it is an undeniable fact that the same love that gave her so much joy at one point, gave her just as much pain. A part of her past- self had to die in order for the speaker to be reborn.
No matter how hard society tries to achieve the perfect life, it does not always go as planned. It doesn’t matter if the characters are bored and depressed, confused and guilty, or virtuous and lucky; the gradual path of version A is not always in reach. Atwood states near the end of the short story, “You’ll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don’t be deluded by any other endings, they’re all fake, either deliberately fake, which malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die” (690). The idea of this short story is not the fact that every one dies, but with the eventful memories that can make the life worthwhile. The author says, “So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it’s the hardest to do anything with. That’s about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what. Now try How and Why” (690). This short story forces the readers to question the meaning of life. Every story has the same ending, because very life has the same ending. Life is exciting because of the experiences that can lead each individual onto their own path in life. The how and the why are the inspirations, the feelings, and the interpretations that the reader goes through as they make their own way through version A. Be adventurous and make memories because the story isn’t in the ending; it’s in what’s done on the way
...e will be lost as sudden lightning or as wind. And yet the ghost of her remains reflected with the metal gone, a shadow as of shifting leaves at moonrise or at early dawn. A kind of rapture never quite possessed again, however long the heart lays siege upon a ghost recaptured in a web of song – Tennessee Williams” (Hoare).
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” This quote from Walt Disney addressing the concept of achieving dreams is very accurate, and can be seen throughout literature today and in the past. Dreams can give people power or take away hope, and influence how people live their lives based upon whether they have the determination to attack their dreams or not; as seen through characters like the speaker in Harlem by Langston Hughes and Lena and Walter Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in The Sun.
In the novel Walden, transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau proclaims the importance of recognizing a determined life built from the parameters of society. He declares, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” (Thoreau 261). In this quote, Thoreau utilizes the literary device of repetition to emphasize the importance of mastering the skill of not letting the unimportant and insignificant matters infiltrate one’s life and not letting others choose one’s actions. Another example of an adamant life is unraveled in Emily Dickinson’s inspiring poem “A Light Exists in Spring.” In the poem, she reveals that, “It passes and we stay/A quality of loss/Affecting our Content” (Dickinson 268). Arguably, this demonstrates that many people struggle with the pursuit of happiness because individuals allow outside influences to change or to decide what one does; this shows that people will often times go along with the raging river of the status quo to later be washed ashore and deserted alone on an island, an island called self. Ultimately, it is essential to observe that by realizing that one lives a dictated life the pursuit of happiness takes one step closer towards breaking away from the overbearing pressures of conformity and the status
The emotions associated by an environment enable personal growth over a lifetime. Negative emotions like hopelessness, anger and sadness all influence and alter people deeply, leaving them
Life without hope in a dull, frustrating world congeals the stuff of human existence...almost. To some, born-lived-died is more than the plot of too many bad novels; it dooms them, chaining their lives to a Maslowian fate. Others drown the raw truth in unrelenting labor, raucous revelry, sunlit spring breezes, cigarettes at noontime, or the bottle. Yet some find hope in this droll, frustrating world, but they will not agree and cannot be sure of that hope. Or can they?
There is a fine line between anxiety and depression. A line that is often times blurred. Although there are differences between the two, they also share many similarities, which can lead to false diagnoses for patients. It only gets more complicated when both illnesses are present. For example, The National Institute of Mental Health (2009) did a study of anxiety disorders and found that 53.7% of people reported they also experienced major depression as a secondary condition. These researchers also stated that people who are severely depressed do become anxious. In order to have a better understanding of anxiety and depression one must first clearly define the two conditions, understand the causes, look at the symptoms involved, and review the different treatment options available.
Many people feel apprehensive and miserable every now and then, but when does it take over their whole lives? Losing a loved one, doing poorly in school or work, being bullied and other hardships might lead a person to feel sad, lonely, scared, nervous and/or anxious. Some people experience this on an everyday basis, sometimes even or no reason at all. Those people might have an anxiety disorder, depression, or both. It is highly likely for someone with an anxiety disorder to also be suffering from depression, or the other way around. 50% of those diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.