Quotes About Despair

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Life is, of course, terrible.

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

Life is a dead-end street.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

I just can't get used to life.

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

I may make you feel but I can't make you think....your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.....