Quotes About Hopelessness

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

People do not die from suicide. They die from sadness.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a place for alertness, but not aliveness, a place with no room for hopes and dreams.

She's not coming back. No. He knew it was true. He had the feeling that the world might easily stop turning without the girl in it. Every hour was arduous, and when it was over, you had to start again with a new one, no better. He wondered how long he would be able to keep it going.

How can you explain that it's just that he was sad, that he'd been sad all his life, and he knew he'd always be sad?

When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature--fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

Life: vacant, vain, intolerable. What loyalty did I owe it? None whatsoever.

Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature—fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

It was better never to have been born - never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

Part of me was immobile, stunned with despair, like those rats that lose hope in laboratory experiments and lie down in the maze to starve.

She thought she'd hit rock bottom when she'd passed out in a disgusting gas station toilet, a needle stuck in her arm, lying in a puddle of someone else's urine for hours until the owner discovered her and called the police. But this—an arm's length from a crazy man who wanted to snack on her—this was the all time low.

Describe el estado de cada hombre y mujer en el mundo que no se ha convertido a Dios. ¡No puedo imaginarme una condición peor! Ya es bastante malo no tener dinero, ni salud, ni casa, ni amigos. Pero es mucho peor estar "sin Cristo".

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

People's spirits are sick. They are living in resignation, fear and hopelessness. This book will help them rise above it.

Psychiatry is the management of despair.

Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

We have no future any more. All we can do is entertain ourselves by conversing.

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.

I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realize—it's a kind of horror—that this is my life. And I can't stop. I just can't stop. I can't stop anymore.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

Rejection has long ties pulling the pain of yesterday into the situations of today. What felt hopeless yesterday will feed a hopelessness into today unless we cut those ties.