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Quotes About Despair

These wretches, who never were alive.
~ Dante Alighieri
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
~ Dante Alighieri
The upstairs was hopeless: all her clothes, Dale's suits, everything belonging to the boys. And everywhere the powerful, sickening smell of ashes and water.
~ Darcy O'Brien
I do. I still love him so much. And I feel so worthless because he doesn't love me anymore.
~ Daria Snadowsky
Whatever age you are when you're first burned is old enough to lose hope that you'll ever get excited about anybody else.
~ Daria Snadowsky
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
~ Dario Argento
So what we are right now is a pair of dickweeds in a hotel room in Sydney. My life is royally fucked up right now and from where I'm sitting, your life is even bloody worse.
~ Dave Gorman
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
~ Dave Grohl
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me.
~ Dave Pelzer
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.
~ Dave Pelzer
When Eeyore becomes your spirit animal...you've lost hope".
~ Dave Ramsey
Much of depression's pain arises out of the recognition that what might make one feel better--human connection-- seems impossible in the midst of a paralyzing episode of depression. It is rather like dying from thirst while looking at a glass of water just beyond one's reach
~ David A. Karp
There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.
~ David Almond
And then the roar. That roar. The roar of the end of all hope.
~ David Annandale
Joy began to feel the weight press down on her. That terrible weight that saps the muscles and grays the day. The one that starts in your head and presses every thought down. Joy got low, and when people are low, they turn to anything for help.
~ David Archer
Panic demands you do something, but when there is nothing you can do, you go beyond despair.
~ David Archer
The humiliation...I could have died there and I would have been happier.
~ David Bayer
In a sentence: Life is bad, but so is death.
~ David Benatar
False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.
~ James Dashner
What kind of world has this become?" "A really sick one
~ James Dashner
You can't be serious." Thomas could only nod. Minho's shoulders slumped, and his eyes fell to the floor. "How did the world get so shucked?" The words barely came out, low and full of pain. "I'm sorry," Newt said, and there were tears streaming down his face. "I'm … I'm going to shoot if you don't go. Now.
~ James Dashner
With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.
~ James Dashner
No. Just thinking about how much my life sucks." "Mine does, too. Sucks big-time. But I'm glad I'm with you.
~ James Dashner
He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery.
~ James Dashner