Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
Despair is the greatest of our errors.
Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.
Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane
I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.
What was more brutal than loss of hope?
When you have a dream in mind and you want it so bad and you fail, it crushes you.
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.
