Quotes About Despair

Nöyryys sitoo meistä jokaisen, jopa yksinäisimmän, epätoivoisimman, vankimmin sitein muihin ihmisiin.

Gregor wanted to drag himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing he saw was the door

Ä°ntihar eden kiÅŸi, hapishanenin avlusunda daraÄŸac? kurulduÄŸunu gören, bu daraÄŸa-c?nm kendisi için kurulduÄŸu kuruntusuna kap?l?p, geceleyin hücresinden kaçarak kendini asan bir tutukludur.

Manche leugnen den Jammer durch Hinweis auf die Sonne, er leugnet die Sonne durch Hinweis auf den Jammer.

Kaum ist es ein wenig stiller, ist es fast zu still. Als bekäme ich das wahre Gefühl meiner selbst nur, wenn ich unerträglich unglücklich bin. (20.01.1922)

Occasionally I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity and of the existence of a goal to which one makes one's way by undergoing every kind of unhappiness.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

We are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that come into God's head. — Franz Kafka, quoted in Walter Benjamin's Selected Writings . (Belknap Press; First Edition edition December 1, 1996)

he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at an end.

their heads looked as if they had been beaten flat on top and their features shaped in the pain of the beating

beware of thinking of life as commonplace, if by commonplace you mean monotonous, simple, petty. Life is merely terrible;

Los testimonios no concuerdan sino el tema de su ropa: lleva siempre el mismo traje, un chaqué negro con largos faldones. Como es natural, esas diferencias no son efecto de una operación mágica, sino que dependen del humor con el que se mira a Klamm y de que los demás no tienen sino un breve instante para mirarle; las diferencias dependen del grado emocional del espectador y de los innumerables matices de su esperanza o de su desesperación.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

There are only so many things we can do that make us feel better. We pick up the newspapers and we want to cry every day. We turn on the news and we want to jump out the first window, jump in front of the first truck.

When you start drinking, everything goes out of the window. You don't care about anything. You don't even care about yourself.

It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.

Let me seek to understand rather than to be understood. Where there is despair, let me offer hope.

I had paid for this over and over with moments of neurotic despair, but it had been worth it. I had somehow always countered my desire for a knight in shining armour by forming bonds with men I didn't like, or with men who were so off the air there was no hope of a permanent relationship.

The perfect soundtrack for my personal hell.

She can't even stand to be around me, and I didn't do anything," I said despairingly. "You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed." "I wouldn't say cursed," Toby mused. "More like suffering the aftermath of a personal tragedy." The aftermath of a personal tragedy. I liked that. It sounded appropriately gloomy.

Only two months after the battle he wrote a sad description of his own fate: "I spend my time building castles in the air, but in the end all of them, and I, blow away in the end." It is an epitaph that might serve all the empire builders of the violent century.