Quotes About Despair

The salt hung on his spirit like a frost, The dead brine melted in him like a dew Of winter, until nothing of himself Remained, except some starker, barer self In a starker, barer world, in which the sun Was not the sun because it never shone With bland complaisance...

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death.

The desire to retire is an expression of despair. It means that you have lost your rudder and do not know why you are here or where you are going.

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

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

But these matters of life and faith cannot be expressed in the tongues of modernity, for it is this very epistemology that has consigned us to death and despair.

Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced and God's speech has been banished. But the prophetic poet asserts hope precisely in exile.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

I hate it!" he said. "I don't want to be human anymore." "Neither do I," she said. "It's not a good place to be.

but I was urged on by a courage born of despair.

Er dachte bereits daran, in sein Gasthaus der Tränen zu gehen und sich dort aufzuhängen, an einem Strick aus Traumfäden.

paroxysms of weeping.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

I wasn't ready to feel as bad as I did. I'd never felt so lonely.

This world that I live in is empty and cold; the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold The Second Coming

The pain hits me in thick black waves. I scream loud enough to wake the dead... only it doesn't.

Then he took one look around the room, dropped his briefcase with a thud, and burst into tears.

This is when we lost our humanity. I'd open my phone and look at my contacts and only one or two were still alive.

Haiti and Haitians are condemned to die without seeing change in Haiti. They put Haitians in a position to die without seeing a well-developed and prosperous Haiti.

Haïti est devenu un enfer pour les pauvres.