Quotes About Despair

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

I think Trump is so dangerous because the people that he appeals to the most have this sense of despair and oppression that has become a central defining characteristic of their lives. And they feel like only he is their avatar; only he will fight for them; only he will keep the wolf from the proverbial door.

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

dwellings are prostrate; walls are toppling; churches are falling; sacred things are perishing; laws are trodden underfoot; justice is abused; the unhappy people mourn and wail.

Gertrude's remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word "Woe," which she handed out gaily declaring, "Woe is me.

Las lamentaciones y los gemidos, los suspiros y las lágrimas son apaciguadas entre tanto por esta horrible palpitación de mi corazón; ¡ah, esta horrible palpitación!

o suicida prepara o seu suicídio como uma obra de arte.

Cada dia é um peso, é preciso matar o tempo, descobrir um jeito de não pensar, pois o pensamento dói, e vem uma vontade de beber, uma vontade de esquecer, uma vontade de morrer...

Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if despair enters your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and the owls sing in the hills, I shall be with you-