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Quotes About Despair

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
~ Megan Boyle
Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.
~ Christina Stead
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die.
~ Katsura Hoshino
A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?
~ Laini Taylor
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
~ Samuel Beckett
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
~ William Godwin
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
~ William S. Burroughs
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.
~ Zachary Quinto
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
~ Albert Camus
Everybody knows life isn't worth living.
~ Albert Camus
But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
~ Albert Camus
If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
~ Alex Kingston
Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
~ Alfred Austin
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you're secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
~ Anne Lamott
The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
~ Beatrice Sparks
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
~ Burn Gorman
And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you're losing money year after year... that's not life even, that's like death. That's eternal damnation.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.
~ Claudia Gray
When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.
~ Cleve Jones
Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When Ungaretti lost his nine-year-old boy He understood that death is death In an extremely brutal way It was the most terrible event of my life I know what death means I knew it even before But when the best part of me was ripped away I experienced death in myself From that moment on It would strike me as shameless To talk about it That pain will never stop tormenting me
~ Edward Hirsch
Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause there's not much I can do, there's no way out, my screams have no voice no matter how loud I shout... I could be called a low life, but life ain't as low as me. I'm in juvenile hall headed for the penitentiary. George Trevino, sixteen, "Who Am I?
~ Edward Humes
Our concern is the invisible wounding from war. The physical wounds are most visible to our veterans who deserve first concern. But in truth we are all wounded. Grandparents, parents, siblings, children, friends, neighbors, care providers, teachers, taxpayers are all caught in war's long and crushing tentacles. Our entire society reels in pain, exhaustion, despair, and debt. Look closely. All lives are affected and we all need be concerned.
~ Edward Tick