Quotes About Hopelessness

Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.

You know, if my life was a horse, I'd shoot it. (Susan)

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colours draining fast. I had to get away from that town.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

Campania is Italy's poorest region and in many respects its saddest.

Heartbreak comes just when you think nothing worse can happen.

It wasn't overwhelmingly catastrophic he killed himself. Most people who mess about with heroin, they lose their souls way earlier, it's just waiting for the body to keel over.

But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.

She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands.

On bad days, I could feel the whole year swinging underneath me like a dead thing.

I couldn't be here anymore. I couldn't be in me. But I couldn't be anywhere else, either. I had nowhere else to go.

The Earl pressed his lips together and considered long enough that faintness made Will light-headed. And his words sent Will's stomach plunging hopelessly.

Ezra blew into Sarah's mouth frantically, knowing it was hopeless, but unwilling to admit it to himself. If he stopped breathing for her, he would have to begin life without her

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

She wanted to be dead and she wanted her daughter to be dead too so that neither of them would have to face the unbearable business of continuing on. It

felt a sense of dismalness.

Americans really did not understand desperation.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Pues, desde siempre, ser lúcido y español aparejó gran amargura y poca esperanza.

Desde siempre, ser lúcido y español aparejó gran amargura y poca esperanza.» El capitán Alatriste

Por eso estaba callado y quieto, que era una forma tan buena como otra cualquiera de estar desesperado.

En ese último extremo, la única salvación de los vencidos es no esperar salvación alguna.

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit." "We did say it was still only a dream." "And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.