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Quotes About Hopelessness

I'm tired of my life and my mind wants to die.
~ Sarah Kane
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope
~ Sarah Kane
Depression doesn't just steal the depressed person's capacity for joy. It throws its mantle over everything he has ever done and everything he could ever do. The depressed person dies not to save himself from the world but to save the world from himself. In this case the word depression makes clear sense; he is pressed down, forever.
~ Sarah Manguso
First thought: How terrible that she cannot kill herself .
~ Sarah Manguso
For Lilah, the light made everything worse. It was harder than the dark uglier, and anything it showed her would be true beyond any hope of redemption.
~ Sarah Monette
There are no gardens in the Mirador. Only graveyards.
~ Sarah Monette
There was something terribly stark in the way she said it, an acknowledgment of the hopelessness of the vampires' love for the demi-angels, and at the same time a resolute dignity that rejected pity.
~ Sarah Monette
I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.
~ Sarah Waters
They made her feel lonelier, suddenly, than she had ever felt before. She went creeping into her room and undressed without lighting a candle, then lay curled in bed in a ferment of misery. What was the use of her being alive? Her heart was some desiccated thing: a prune, a fossil, a piece of clinker. Her mouth might as well be filled with ashes. It was all utterly hopeless and futile . . .
~ Sarah Waters
What was the use of her being alive? Her heart was some desiccated thing: a prune, a fossil, a piece of clinker. Her mouth might as well be filled with ashes. It was all utterly hopeless and futile...
~ Sarah Waters
I did not care. I cared for nothing, now. I had kept up my nerve and my spirit, all that time. I had waited for my chance of escaping and got nowhere.
~ Sarah Waters
People do not die from suiside; they die from sadness
~ Sarosh Madara
There is a feeling of death hanging over the nation. Today
~ Saul D. Alinsky
Counting sheep no longer works. The day comes crashing down on you and you can't escape it. You go home, have two shots of Jack, look through the bills, fix yourself a TV dinner, watch the Lakers lose another one, take a bath, think briefly of cutting your wrists knowing you don't have the guts to do it, and you go to bed. So much for the sheep.
~ Scott C. Holstad
the words on the paper im readin are blarin out at me loud an angrylike tellin me there's no end to the recession theres no jobs theres no peace theres no hope man an people wonder why i do what i do? an bums are bummin lights from me and babies are squintin up at me an my coffee is rupturing my gut bitterlike an i guess the world is kinda like the coffee sometimes – ill be suffering thru both tomorrow.
~ Scott C. Holstad
when you despise yourself and everyone else in the world, you just give up, say fuck it, and pray the fuckers will accidentally press the big bomb buttons
~ Scott C. Holstad
I do not believe in goodness in the world anymore. What is good either dies or is killed.
~ Scott Frost
When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.
~ Reggie Yates
Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him.
~ Mark Twain
that dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age
~ Mark Twain
He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. Alles ist Scheisse, he announced. All is shit.
~ Markus Zusak
Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore.
~ Markus Zusak
No veis la herida que tengo dentro? ¿No veis cómo se extiende y me corroe ante vuestros ojos? No quiero volver a tener esperanzas.
~ Markus Zusak
Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore. I don't want to pray that Max is alive and safe. Or Alex Steiner. Because the world does not deserve them.
~ Markus Zusak