Quotes About Despair

She didn't like to admit it about her own kin, least about her own brother, but there he was—good for absolutely nothing.

I just know you're a good man, she said desperately. You're not a bit common!

No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not.

El camino a la desesperación es renunciar a cualquier tipo de experiencia.

Man is nothing but a coagulation of mud and shit ... equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or crab-louse

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

'Money Changes Everything' is this terribly despairing, heartbreaking song.