"And what am I to do on..." - Quote by Jane Austen
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
“Time did not compose her.”
“Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.”
More on Despair
“So many miseries have craz'd my voice,That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.”
“As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.”
“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
More on Hopelessness
“Despair and die. The ghosts”
“So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”
“There's nothing in this world can make me joy.”