Quotes About Hopelessness

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

It is finished. Old Mitsima's words repeated themselves in his mind. Finished, finished....In silence and from a long way off, but violently. desperately, hopelessly, he had loved Kiakimé. And now it was finished. He was sixteen.

People deceive and play games with themselves. Lying to others is bad, but lying to yourself is hopeless.

I just have a feeling," Dortmunder said. "This is turning into one of those dreams where you keep running down the same corridor and you never get anywhere.

suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

There is a place you can go that is below down and beyond bad. When you get there, every minute that passes goes by like an hour. Every hour that passes feels like an achievement without a goal. And everything around you makes you hurt.

Everything in life has let me down.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Life is a dead-end street.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

hoping some would-be robber or rapist or killer would find her and do her the favor of ending what she herself could not. But nothing bad had ever happened.

despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

May fell onto her back, watching the zipping stars, which tonight were covered lightly in clouds, and feeling the darkest despair.

No matter how many minutes remained on the clock, there was no chance of victory.

All's taken away: my love and my power. The body, thrown into city it hates, Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hour The blood grows colder in my veins.

No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.