Quotes About Despair

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

Qué quiere decir felices por siempre jamás, después de todo, sino una caída en lo ordinario, en la debilidad humana, acumulando desesperación, una caída de muerte?

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

How can I die alone.Where will I be then who am now alone,what groans so patheticallyin this room where I am alone?

But he saw behind the sneers and laughter to a people without hope — people who sensed the earth was changing but could not comprehend it — people who needed something to believe in so much that they believed in death.

It could be so cruel, hope. But for twenty years it was all she'd had to hold on to, the only thing to push back the darkness that lingered on the periphery, searching for every opportunity to enshroud her.

He didn't kill himself. The grief did that." "I

Tracy had always thought hope to be cruel, a tease that filled people with positive emotions, without any real basis.

The loss of hope is nearly as dangerous as the drug itself. Addicts have a lot of self-hatred. They believe they're worthless.

Damned be the dark ends of the earth where old horrors live again.

There is no god but evil; no lite but darkness; no hope but doom—

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

the world is going down the drain; only a Savior who is willing to work at the bottom of the drain can redeem it.

La ira ?dijo Merlín? es tan sólo una expresión de la cólera. Hay desesperación, depresión, indefensión, desesperanza y, desde luego, impotencia. Todas las cosas que vos habéis sentido controladas por los hombres.

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

a land where living is so hard that men want a God so they can hate him.

And nothing to look backward to with pride,And nothing to look forward to with hope.