“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
“I believe that most of us construct a merciful deception between ourselves and the consequences of our existence in order that we do not succumb to despair.”
“To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.”
“Good gracious, he was sexy—a word that had not existed in my personal vocabulary until that moment. This guy was sexy like it was his job or something.”