Quotes About Despair

Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.

There are feelings which want to kill the lonely; and if they do not succeed, well, then they themselves must die. But are you capable of this—to be a murderer?

What does Nihilism mean?—That the highest values are losing their value.

The world itself is a filthy monster.

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Why should one live? All is vain! To live- that is to thresh straw; to live- that is to burn oneself and yet not get warm.-

Life is a dark chain of events.

All is alike, nothing is worth while, knowledge strangleth.

Nothing lives which would be worthy of your striving, and the earth deserves not a sigh. Pain and boredom is our being and the world is excrement, ??nothing else. Calm yourself.

Há dias em que se apodera de mim um sentimento mais negro que a mais negra melancolia – o desprezo dos homens.

There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!...

It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome.

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

It takes eternity to make a man despair.

The son of God chose Peter, who knew sin, rather than the beloved John, as the rock upon which to build His Church, that sinners and the weak might never have excuse to despair.

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

The refusal to love is hell.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...

I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn't glow. The sun didn't rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.

People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

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