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Quotes About Despair

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
~ Paul the Apostle
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
~ Emile M. Cioran
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do
~ Sarah Kane
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
~ Albert Camus
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
~ Gerard Way
I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?
~ Kenneth Williams
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.
~ Christopher Moore
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Loneliness has been following me my whole life.
~ Robert De Niro
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
~ Franz Kafka
When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.
~ Coretta Scott King
I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.
~ Sarah Kane
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.
~ Jessica Lange
I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.
~ Jim Cymbala
Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.
~ Louie Giglio
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
~ John Kennedy Toole
It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.
~ Kristin Armstrong
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
~ Georges Rouault
I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
~ Thomas Merton
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
~ Kiersten White
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
~ Charles Lamb