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Quotes About Despair

Styxx was damned and happiness never came to the damned.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Even the Devil may cry when he looks around Hell and realizes he's alone.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you people talking about?" – Abigail "Nothing important. Just the end of the world as we know it, and for the record, I don't feel fine. Neither will you when it all comes slamming down on your head." – Zarek
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
~ Daniel Johns
Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally
~ David Clement-Davies
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.
~ David Sedaris
I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.
~ Dennis Rodman
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
those who despair of life are not long for it.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.
~ Erlend Loe
There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.
~ Evelyn Anthony
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.
~ Maya Angelou
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
~ Meg Rosoff
I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
~ Miranda July
If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
~ Naomi Wallace
It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.
~ Nick Hornby
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
~ Patricia McCormick
At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?
~ Peggy Noonan
Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.
~ Penelope Lively
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.
~ Ram Dass
Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
~ Robert Browning