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Quotes About Despair

Je ne veux plus faire de cauchemars. Je ne veux plus chercher à atteindre une petite fille que je ne peux pas sauver. Le monde est cruel. Notre boulot est sans espoir. Je ne sais même plus comment aimer. J'ai juste besoin de haïr.
~ Lisa Gardner
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
~ Thomas Merton
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
~ William S. Burroughs
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
~ Mel Gibson
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
~ Franz Kafka
There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again
~ Munia Khan
Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?
~ Maverick Myth novel
There is winning and there is misery.
~ Bill Parcells
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair
~ Nelson Mandela
I read an essay by a little girl ... She wrote,' I am nothing and nobody. My cat was stuck to the wall. I tried to pull her off but they threw my cat away.
~ Alasdair Gray
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
~ Albert Einstein
Celui qui ressent sa vie et celle d'autres comme dénuées de sens est fondamentalement malheureux puisqu'il n'a aucune raison de vivre.
~ Albert Einstein
For young survivors of the pandemic, life would never be the same. Like shell shocked soldiers, they bore emotional scars. These children had similar experiences and shared similar feelings of anxiety, of terror, of despair.
~ Albert Marrin
What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
~ Aldous Huxley
I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
~ Aldous Huxley
The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.
~ Aldous Huxley
Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.
~ Aldous Huxley
Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma. Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.
~ Aldous Huxley
She would have laughed if she haven't been at the point of crying.
~ Aldous Huxley
De qué sirven la verdad, la belleza o el conocimiento cuando las bombas de ántrax llueven del cielo?
~ Aldous Huxley
He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her. Dared he face the risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal? But if she were to say yes, what rapture!
~ Aldous Huxley
La felicidad siempre aparece escuálida en comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha. Y, naturalmente, la estabilidad no es, ni con mucho, tan espectacular como la inestabilidad.
~ Aldous Huxley