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Quotes About Hopelessness

The girl was holding out her hand, but I could only give a pathetic shrug. I had nothing to give her. I'd finally faded away.
~ Scott Heim
Evil of that magnitude was like a dead star, sucking all the light out of life.
~ Scott Turow
I see no end to my misery but the grave.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whom I once get hold of, he will Find the whole world pointless, futile. 11810 Over him gloom casts its dun net, Blinding him to sunrise, sunset, Though possessing all his senses, Inwardly there's only darkness,
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I left her asking permission to visit her in the course of the day. She consented, and I went, and, since that time, sun, moon, and stars may pursue their course: I know not whether it is day or night; the whole world is nothing to me.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gitti huzurum, A??rla?t? yüre?im, Bulamayaca??m onu bir daha Bir daha asla. Onun bana ait olmad??? yerde Mezar da, Bütün dünya da De?ildir umurumda. Zavall? ba??m Yerinde de?il, Zavall? akl?m, Oldu parça parça.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She flings herself into the most dreadful rages when things don't go as she wants them. She rolls on the ground as if she's given up hope of anything ever being right again. Sometimes she's so overcome that she chokes.
~ John Beevers
Only those who have stood within the bars and heard the din of devils and the appalling sounds of despair can imagine the horrors of the hold of a convict ship.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.
~ John Connolly
I couldn't weep here, any more than I could hope. Of course he couldn't stay: and much as I wanted him by me, I wanted even more that my friend have what he wanted for himself.
~ John Crowley
The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques.
~ John D. Caputo
I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.
~ Brian Welch
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
~ Margaret Atwood
A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
~ William Morris
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
~ Megan Boyle
A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?
~ Laini Taylor
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
~ William S. Burroughs
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
~ Albert Camus
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you're secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
~ Anne Lamott
God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive.
~ Edward T. Welch
Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.
~ Eileen Myles
Si rien ne pouvait nous sauver, ni l'argent, ni le corps d'un homme, ni même les études, autant tout détruire immédiatement.
~ Elena Ferrante
If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.
~ Elena Ferrante
There are no sides in suicide.
~ Anthony Liccione