Quotes About Hopelessness

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones.

Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I to yell out to them, right now, here, that it's hopeless?

Despair is something horribly simple.

Sharon dropped to her knees and reached her hand over the edge. The gesture was supposed to be a sign of support. But she realized then that it was useless. His insanity was like the stream beneath the ground. It only flowed in one direction, into deeper and deeper darkness. She was going to lose him.

Öyle bir an geliyor ki,insan?n içinde bir ÅŸeyler k?r?l?yor;ne enerji ne istek kal?yor. YaÅŸamak gerekir diyorlar ama yaÅŸamak son vadede intihara sürükleyen bir sorun

There are times when I think of switching to narcotics. There, at least you can rely on a heroin pusher to push heroin.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity.

They soon lost interest in Sofya. She was just one more prisoner -with no more idea of her destination than anyone else. No one asked her name and patronymic; no one remembered her surname. She realized with surprise that although the process of evolution had taken millions of years, these people had needed only a few days to revert to the state of cattle, dirty and unhappy, captive and nameless.

Those are rare who fall without becoming degraded; there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Misérables.

Maintenant je suis captif. Mon corps est aux fers dans un cachot, mon esprit est en prison dans une idee. Une horrible, une sanglante, une implacable idee! Je n'ai plus qu'une pense, qu'une conviction, qu'une certitude: condamne a mort!

In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

No one would want to live this way, and yet here they were. The Great Depression.

Uyumak, uyumak, uyumak ve bir daha hiç uyanmamak istiyordu. Büyük bir çaresizliÄŸin içine düÅŸtüÄŸünü hissediyordu ve bir ç?k?? yolu, onu gülümsetecek bir ÅŸey bulam?yordu. Her ÅŸeyden ar?nd?r?lm?? bu yerde göz gezdirirken k?ymetli ya da önemsenmeye deÄŸer bir ÅŸey bulam?yordu.

Every day is darker and colder.

it's terrible to see her slipping away. It's like standing on the deck of a boat, watching the waves suck someone under, and knowing that there's no life preserver to throw in.

Eso es porque Aki se ha ido. Porque la he perdido. Ya no hay nada que desee ver. Ni en Australia, ni en Alaska, ni en el Mediterráneo, ni en la Antártida. En este mundo, vaya a donde vaya, siempre me sucederá los mismo. Por más maravilloso que sea el paisaje que tenga ante los ojos, nunca me emocionaré; la más hermosa de las vistas no me gustará. Ha desaparecido la persona que me hacía desear, ver, saber y sentir..., incluso vivir.

I just want to die. Oh, why did I get made if it was just for this? There's got to be someplace I belong, something I'm meant to do that's different. Because I don't fit in this world, in this life. And if there isn't something more, I'd rather be dead. I want to dream something else.

How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

This was a game that kill could not win—or, if it did, it would be an unbearable win that destroyed the very meaning of winning.

Every night she bore witness to what she could never have. It wasn't living. It was torture.

I thought, That's it, I'm going to throw myself under the wheels of the car. I'm going to run over my own head. But I couldn't even do that because I couldn't get up any speed. If you ran over your head in this gridlock, you probably wouldn't even end up dead, and your hair would be all f***ed up.