Quotes About Despair

Sade's work, with its compulsive attraction for the delinquent imagination of the romantics, has been instrumental in shaping aspects of the modern sensibility; its paranoia, its despair, its sexual terrors, its omnivorous egocentricity, its tolerance of massacre, holocaust, annihilation.

Pero había en mí una desolación infinita, la sensación, inexpresable en palabras, de que nada en aquel mundo ligaba, de que todo estaba torcido y que no había ningún ser humano ni uno solo, en quien apoyarse.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

When Things Close In It feels as though I make my own way through massive rock like a vein of ore alone, encased. I am so deep inside it I can't see the path or any distance: everything is close and everything closing in on me has turned to stone. Since I still don't know enough about pain, this terrible darkness makes me small, If it's you, though— press down hard on me, break in that I may know the weight of your hand and you, the fullness of my cry.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Jeeta Hu Magar Jeeta Bhi Nahi.......... Marta Hu Magar Marta Bhi Nahi........... Tere Gam ME Phanaa Hone Ke Liye..... Peeta Hoon Me Zahar...........

Kate looked up at her, hollowed-eyed. She wouldn't be use to failure) No. He tried to fix it himself. He self-medicated with drink.

No dignity in death and not much more when she was living

Alicia was close to tears and wanted to sit on the empty platform and cry in peace.

We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

When you win, there's congratulations. When you lose, the world is falling apart.