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Quotes About Despair

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair. It is the accomplice of the other sins and their worst punishment. It is the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The mind most effectually works upon the body, producing by his passions and perturbations miraculous alterations, as melancholy, despair, cruel diseases, and sometimes death itself …They that live in fear are never free, resolute, secure, never merry, but in continual pain …It causeth oft-times sudden madness.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
~ Dorothy Parker
Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
~ Dorothy Parker
For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.
~ Dorothy Parker
Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
~ Dorothy Parker
Please don't let me hope, dear God. Please don't. I
~ Dorothy Parker
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
~ Douglas Adams
Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.
~ Douglas Adams
Did you know, young lady, said Watkin to her, that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By Saint John the Divine, as you know. To me it shows very clear signs of having been written while waiting for a ferry. Oh, yes, I think so. It starts off, doesn't it, with that kind of dreaminess you get when you're killing time, getting bored, you know, just making things up, and then gradually grows to a sort of climax of hallucinatory despair.
~ Douglas Adams
maladjusted, socially isolated, sad, hunched, emotional cripple.
~ Douglas Adams
But how are you, metalman?' said Ford. 'Very depressed.' 'What's up?' 'I don't know,' said Marvin, 'I've never been there.' 'Why,' said Ford squatting down beside him and shivering, 'are you lying face down in the dust?' 'It's a very effective way of being wretched,' said Marvin. 'Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me.
~ Douglas Adams
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,' it said.
~ Douglas Adams
The history of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure, and enormously long lunch-breaks.
~ Douglas Adams
Ah, a vida - disse Marvin, lúgubre. - Pode-se odiá-la ou ignorá-la, mas é impossível gostar dela.
~ Douglas Adams
Oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.
~ Douglas Adams
Marvin'in göÄŸsünün derinliklerindeki diÅŸliler g?c?rdad?. Komik, dedi cenaze törenlerine çok uygun bir sesle, tam hayat daha kötü olamaz derken birden her ÅŸey nas?l da daha kötüye gidiyor.
~ Douglas Adams
Kendini afallam??, yapayaln?z ve sevgisiz hissediyordu.
~ Douglas Adams
?ovjek pokraj Forda se dosad ve? malo nacvrcao. O?i su mu zavijugale do Forda. Mislio sam, rekao je, da kad svijet propada treba le?i na pod i staviti papirnatu kesu na glavu ili tako nešto. Ako ho?ete, možete, re?e Ford. Tako su nam rekli u vojsci, rekao je ?ovjek, a o?i su mu krenule na dug put natrag do njegovog viskija. To ?e pomo?i?, upita barmen. Ne, rekao je Ford im prijateljski se osmjehnuo.
~ Douglas Adams
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,' it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.
~ Douglas Adams
The history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure and enormously long lunch-breaks.
~ Douglas Adams
They took her flesh from her, to wear as a cloak, and her blood to drink, leaving only her shadow
~ Douglas Clegg
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
~ Douglas Coupland
I wonder that all things seem to be from hell these days: dates, jobs, parties, weather…Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised heaving in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.
~ Douglas Coupland