Quotes About Hopelessness

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

Out of frustration and hopelessness our young people have reached the point of no return. We no longer endorse patience and turning the other cheek. We assert the right of self-defense by whatever means necessary, and reserve the right of maximum retaliation against our racist oppressors, no matter what the odds against us are.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

The darkness is killing us.

Life was getting dark around the edges. It was like he was moving through a tunnel that was becoming narrower and blacker and more choked and airless, and soon there would be nothing left for him to breathe and no room for him to move.

and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he'd be

People with a lot of dead begin to lose the desire to live.

Gradually, I came to accept hunger as a constant companion. But this new hunger was different. It filled me with hatred, confusion, helplessness, hopelessness, anxiety, loneliness, selfishness and a cynical attitude toward people.

Era mais um agente funerário do que um médico; acho que nunca consegui salvar um único paciente. Estavam em estado terminal quando eu chegava; quando muito consegui prolongar-lhes a agonia.

It was as if Heinrich too were beckoning an old age of despair, not of premature death but of a lingering death-in-life.

But when he returned home he was as far as ever from any resolve to tell her how he was situated. I may say that his walk had done him no good, and that he had not made up his mind to anything. He had been building those pernicious castles in the air during more than half the time; not castles in the building of which he could make himself happy, as he had done in the old days, but black castles, with cruel dungeons, into which hardly a ray of light could find its way.

But now what chance had she? At seventeen, Claire saw life stretching endlessly before her, arid and hopeless. As

The brutal aggression of these would-be soldiers and heroes, wrenched from hopelessness and unemployment and easily turned into unthinking zealots, chilled

Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.

De onzekerheid maakt me gek. Alles is onzeker. Er is geen houvast. En daardoor wordt ook het denken onzeker, mijn gedachten zijn een hel. Alleen de dood is zeker. Alleen de dood kan mijn gedachten stopzetten. Daarom wil ik dood. Op dat soort momenten.' 'Het is een illusie te denken dat de dood een oplossing is.' 'Die illusie is op dit soort momenten aangenamer dan het leven.

cocaine. I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime

wherever she goes she will only find the same hell she was running away from.

Nothing lasts forever. Nothing. How could everything have gone so wrong…so wrong…so wrong…

Why do I think you did it? Because you were trapped upside down in a tankful of water. Because you were weak and in pain. Because you were tired of fighting.

I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: "I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

Sorumlusu olmad???m halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da ba???latamayaca??m bir günah?n, umutsuzluk içinde, cezas?n? çekiyordum.

I wondered how many people managed to go on living when there was nothing to be hoped from within.

We are living through a period bereft of a future. Waiting for that which is to come is no longer a matter of hope, but of anguish.

No hay esperanza para el vagabundo que está de pie en el magistrado. Si a través de sus balbuceos brota algo desgarrador que atraviesa el alma, no será escuchado ni por el magistrado, ni por los circunstantes. Es un grito mudo. Y los desgraciados entre ellos son casi siempre también sordos, los unos para los otros. Y cada desgraciado, bajo la presión de la indiferencia general, trata, mediante la mentira o la inconsciencia, de hacerse sordo a sí mismo.