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Quotes About Despair

The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
~ Maria von Trapp
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?
~ Squidward Tentacles
When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
~ Albert Camus
Everything in life has let me down.
~ Richey Edwards
This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.
~ Celia Johnson
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
To live a life half dead, a living death.
~ John Milton
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
~ Lorrie Moore
It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.
~ Alesha Dixon
Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
~ Stendhal
It's probably been the worst three months of my life.
~ Steven Gerrard
A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.
~ Paul Verlaine
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
~ W. C. Fields
I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
~ Anais Nin
Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.
~ Frank Zappa
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
~ William James
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
~ Paulo Coelho
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
~ Georges Bataille
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe