#despair

We are all doomed. We are all doomed.

From The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

He felt as if he were being dragged down into the abyss.

From The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The language of cancer is the language of despair.

From The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

There's no love of life without despair of life.

From The Stranger by Albert Camus

The hospital was a place where hope and despair coexisted.

From The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Patient Hospital by Dan Baum