Quotes About Despair

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.