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Quotes About Hopelessness

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
~ Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
A poor man is a living dead one.
~ Anzia Yezierska
DIE KARTOFFELSORTIERMASCHINE rüttelte im Bogen=Lampen=Licht: Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie! / Umdient von 4 Lemuren in fahler Tracht: die Schatten flohen manchmal entsetzt vor ihren eigenen Herren davon. (Zaunzu hülfesuchend? – Bei uns iss ooch keene.)
~ Arno Schmidt
I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.
~ Denis Johnson
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.
~ Marilyn Manson
Why should one live? All is vain! To live- that is to thresh straw; to live- that is to burn oneself and yet not get warm.-
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
~ Franz Kafka
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
~ Tammy Faye Bakker
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
~ Robert Greene
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
~ Said Sayrafiezadeh
On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this gave our guilt a tinge of hopelessness because, up to then, we had believed that as we grew older our faults would disappear, and none of them did.
~ Rumer Godden
Why, oh why won't she just overdose?
~ Rupert Smith
Zaman zaman beni saran hüzünlerin, hayat b?kk?nl???n?n bir ruhi hastal?k alameti olmas?ndan korkard?m. Bir kitab? okurken geçen iki saatin ömrümün birçok senelerinden daha dolu, ehemmiyetli oldu?unu fark edince insan hayat?n?n ürkütücü hiçli?ini dü?ünür ve yeis içinde kal?rd?m.
~ Sabahattin Ali
I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
~ Margaret Atwood
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
~ Margaret Atwood
This is what I miss… not something that's gone, but something that will never happen.
~ Margaret Atwood
She had loved him, uselessly.
~ Margaret Atwood
Encyclopedia-selling was known to be the last resort of the feckless, the inept, and the desperate
~ Margaret Atwood
Everyone's too sad for everything.
~ Margaret Atwood
All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.
~ Siobhan Davis, Saven Denial
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
~ Ernest Cline
And yet, how dreary to turn my eyes from the contemplation of that bright object and force them to dwell on the dull, grey, desolate prospect around: the joyless, hopeless, solitary path that lay before me.
~ Anne Bronte