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Quotes About Despair

The world's whole sap is sunk:The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk,Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk,Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh,Compared with me, who am their epitaph.
~ John Donne
TIS the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks ; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays ; The world's whole sap is sunk ; The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interr'd ; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph.
~ John Donne
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
~ John Donne
The wretched have no friends.
~ John Dryden
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
~ Ellen Glasgow
My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
~ Lisa See
No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.
~ Mildred D. Taylor
I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.
~ Polly Allen Mellen
Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!
~ Anton Chekhov
I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.
~ Brian Welch
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
~ Petrarch
All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.
~ Ray Charles
Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
~ Eugene O'Neill
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
~ Victor Hugo
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
~ Saul Bellow
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
~ Margaret Atwood
A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
~ William Morris
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
~ James Fox, Killer on Campus
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?
~ Maya Banks, Sweet Addiction
If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
~ Dan Wells, Ruins
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
~ Marie Lu, Champion
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
~ Kohta Hirano