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Quotes About Hopelessness

When people start getting depressed there's just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Flowers and light, hope and excitement all suddenly seemed like things that were very distant from me, and I was trapped inside a deep, putrid, and bloody darkness.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within, I thought. I had lost my last ounce of strength. Before my eyes something was coming to an end, something I didn't want to end, but for which I lacked the energy to suffer, much less fight. There was only a leaden hopelessness in me.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Con tutta me stessa avrei voluto fermarmi: smettere di camminare, smettere di vivere. Il pensiero che ci sarebbe stato un domani, e poi un dopodomani, e poi una settimana, non mi era mai sembrato tanto insopportabile. Continuare a vivere nei giorni a venire con quella sensazione di sconforto totale mi ripugnava. Mi era ingrata anche la mia stessa figura che percorreva le strade come quelle di qualsiasi altro passante notturno senza rivelare lo scompiglio che aveva dentro.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end "death is seen seated on the face.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.
~ Barry Lyga
I wanted to ask God to help me but I could utter only words, dark, useless words which fell on the floor beside me and rolled off into the corners and underneath the bed.
~ Beatrice Sparks
Depressed? No one in the world but a doper could know the true opposite of depressed.
~ Beatrice Sparks
A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
~ George Orwell
My poems are dead because I'm dead. You're dead. We're all dead. Dead people in a dead world.
~ George Orwell
You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. Those are the only results that you will ever see. There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
~ George Orwell
Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy, or integrity. You will be hollow.
~ George Orwell
He had written it down at last, but it made no difference. The therapy had not worked.
~ George Orwell
You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. Those are the only results that you will ever see.
~ George Orwell
You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. Those are the only results you will ever see. There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our lifetime. We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.
~ George Orwell
You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future.
~ George Orwell
Le monde sent la mort Les oiseaux volent les yeux crevés Tu es sombre comme un ciel noir.
~ Georges Bataille
hopeless gloom.
~ Georgette Heyer
Sarah Harrell There is no use there is no use at all in smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything, there is no use at all and the respect is mutual.
~ Gertrude Stein
Americans can accept that the American Dream will not work out for them; what has been heartbreaking for so many is the sense that their children will have it even worse.
~ Timothy D. Snyder
And when I don't feel it, it's pointless. Think about getting up it's pointless. Think about eating it's pointless. Think about dressing it's pointless. Think about speaking it's pointless. Think about dying only it's totally fucking pointless.
~ Sarah Kane
She's sick to the fucking gills of herself and wishes wishes wishes that something would happen to make life begin.
~ Sarah Kane
There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful
~ Sarah Kane
No one survives life.
~ Sarah Kane