Quotes About Hopelessness

But unless carefully managed and contained, self-criticism can become a form of inner-directed virtue signaling. It projects toughness and ambition, but often leads to rumination and hopelessness instead of productive action.[

in Beauvoir's experience losers were the most dangerous people. Because eventually they got to the stage where they had nothing more to lose.

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possibly be on this side of the grave.

The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve.

There was a look in their eyes, sometimes . . . They weren't dreading the trigger being pulled, even if the gun was already pointed at them. It was as if they ran toward it. I could not fathom this, at first. How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Her mind is running in circles, like a gerbil on a wheel, the same way mine is. Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

No one knows what it is to lie here alone day after day, in silence and darkness, without hearing a voice or seeing a ray of light. Sad thoughts come over me, and I do not feel sometimes as if I could bear it any longer or as if it could ever be light again.

Looking into the eyes of someone who will never love you back is a life of despair.

I wish I had the guts to walk away & forget about what we had, but I can't because I know you won't come after me & that's what hurts the most.

Sometimes giving up is the only option when you know there's nothing left for you to fight for.

Why should I even bother holding on when there is nothing to hold on to.

I don't know what I want in life. I don't know what I want right now. all I know is that I'm hurting so much inside, and it's eating me, and one day, there won't be any of me left.

You have no idea what it feels like to wake up every morning afraid your going to live.

I cry because I know he doesn't feel the way I do. I cry because I think of how pathetic I am. And I cry because I think I'll be crying forever.

Paralyzed by the thought of tomorrow, just please release my sorrow, it's too much to swallow, my soul is now hollow

When your heart is broken, the whole world is cast in the crushing gloom of despair.

For Sale: One heart. Horrible condition will take anything for it. PLEASE! Just cut it out of my chest and end the suffering...

I see no happy ending with your friendship in the future...It'll never get better.

Sometimes I wonder if my life is even worth living anymore. I really don't give a fu.. anymore.

Fu..ing hate this life. Sometimes I think it would be easier just to get a knife. I don't know what to do, I'm crying every night. It would just be easier if I was outta sight.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more