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Quotes About Despair

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone. - Sentry
~ Sophocles
I live in a place of tears.
~ Sophocles
Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .
~ Sophocles
This is Electra. Brilliant no more.
~ Sophocles
heaviest of all woe Is theirs whose life is crushed beyond recall.
~ Sophocles
What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?
~ Sophocles
Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.
~ Sophocles
Mother and father marked out that rock to be my everlasting tomb—buried alive. Let me die there, where they tried to kill me.
~ Sophocles
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
~ Sophocles
Blind, lost in the night, endless night that nursed you!
~ Sophocles
crashes down the abyss—sheer doom! No footing helps, all foothold lost and gone.
~ Sophocles
But now to hear your story—is there a man more agonized? More wed to pain and frenzy? Not a man on earth, the joy of your life ground down to nothing
~ Sophocles
Now, in this one day, wailing, madness and doom, death, disgrace
~ Sophocles
all the griefs in the world that you can name, all are theirs forever.
~ Sophocles
To the depths of terror, too dark to hear, to see.
~ Sophocles
Worse yet, the sight of my children, born as they were born, how could I long to look into their eyes?
~ Sophocles
I'd wall up my loathsome body like a prison, blind to the sound of life, not just the sight.
~ Sophocles
Beni b?rak?n, b?rak?n, teselliye ihtiyac?m yok, zira ?st?rab?m?n düÄŸümleri çözülmez, ?st?raplar?m?n sonu yoktur, inlemelerim öylesine sonsuz.
~ Sophocles
Yours is a grief that can't be quenched.
~ Sophocles
Hopeless frustration devoured my youth.
~ Sophocles
what dark power leapt beyond all bounds, beyond belief, to crush your wretched life?
~ Sophocles
godforsaken, cursed by the gods! I pity you but I can't bear to look.
~ Sophocles
inside me I'm dying
~ Sophocles
Vossa existência, frágeis mortais, é aos meus olhos menos que nada. Felicidade só conheceis imaginada; vossa ilusão logo é seguida pela desdita.
~ Sophocles