Quotes About Despair

I should probably feel something more about his death, but I don't. It's messed up that he killed himself, and it's messed up that the guards broke Bobby's arm. And it's not right, either, that we have to spend months in a place where no is getting any better. No one is learning anything, as far as I can see. In some ways, it seems like people are getting worse. Am I? I don't think so, but who knows.

He wanted to die, too, and I didn't even really know him. I don't think anybody did. How are you supposed to know someone who stares at his hands all day, and cracks his head open on a concrete wall?

Love has failed us. We are essentially, irrevocably alone. Anything that seems to combat that loneliness is a trap-Love is a trap:

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

They're not starving to death, but they look hollow-eyed and barren, like they've been fed just enough food but never enough happiness.

I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

I figured any nightmare would be better than my reality.

But mostly it feels sad, often hopeless, and hot with loneliness.

We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked. - Urian

Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]

I hate you! (Artemis) Don't keep saying that, Artie. It's cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron)

It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron

Then why haven't you killed yourself? (Astrid) Why should I? The only enjoyment I have in my life is knowing I piss off everyone around me. If I were dead, it would make them all happy. God forbid I should ever do that. (Zarek)

So what's on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)

Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.

We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked. -Urian

You know, if my life was a horse, I'd shoot it. (Susan)

Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.

It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)

Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)