Quotes About Hopelessness

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

Chiapas, he says, is 'a cemetary with no crosses, where people die without even getting a prayer.

There's no escape for us. We are like mice trapped in a dungeon of wildcats.We are Koreans; we are cursed race and there is no hope for us as long as the Japanese are around.

Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

I awoke with an insatiable desire to end my life.

I don't see how anyone can find happiness in this world.

in that cold autistic dark.

And there he was waiting for the song to end, but it started again, like it's on repeat, maybe he is never meant to be happy, maybe this is the only feeling life has for him.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty.

Me miserable! which way shall I flyInfinite wrath, and infinite despair?Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;And in the lowest deep a lower deep,Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

God has revealed his purposeful sovereignty over good and evil in order to humble human pride, intensify human worship, shatter human hopelessness, and put ballast in the battered boat of human faith, steel in the spine of human courage, gladness in the groans of affliction, and love in the heart that sees no way forward.

From the street, I looked up into the apartment buildings, into the naked windows of the tiny cubicle-rooms. More haggard faces peering blankly; skinny, maimed bodies of uncaring women in slips; men without shirts. All have the same look: the look of nolonger-questioning, resigned doom. The world on its knees. Ã¢â'¬Â¦

O me, this place is hell.

He saw good men go down into a slow decline of hopelessness, broken as their vision of a decent life was broken;

his expression was always one of gentle hopelessness.

I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.