Quotes About Despair

The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.

In vain the West seeks a form of final agony worthy of its past.

However disabused one may be, it is impossible to live without any hope at all. We always keep one, unwittingly, and this unconscious hope makes up for all the explicit others we have rejected, exhausted.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.

The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us to be posted in the schools.

In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

This world can take everything from us, can forbid us everything, but no one has the power to keep us from wiping ourselves out.

My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more.

If you are doomed to devour yourself, nothing can keep you from it: a trifle will impel you as much as a tragedy. Resign yourself to erosion at all times: your fate wills it so.

When we have exhausted the pretexts which incite us to gaiety or melancholy, we come to the point of experiencing either one in a pure state: which is how we join the mad ...

No autocrat wields a power comparable to that enjoyed by a poor devil planning to kill himself.

An existence constantly transfigured by failure.

Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: "What do you expect of this world?" stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep...

I looked for my salvation in the Utopia, but I have only found some solace in the Apocalypse.

As long as you live on this side of the terrible, you will find words to express it; once you know it from inside, you will no longer find a single one.

De la vida tenemos que hacer un soneto —o ahorcarnos.

Cine ÅŸi-a v?zut figura în ipostaza grotesc? nu se va putea uita niciodat?, fiindc? se va teme totdeauna de el însuÅŸi. Disperarea este urmat? de o neliniÅŸte extrem de chinuitoare. Åži ce face acest grotesc altceva decît s? actualizeze ÅŸi s? intensifice teama ÅŸi neliniÅŸtea?

When I torment myself a little too much for not working, I tell myself that I might just as well be dead and that then I would be working still less...

How many times, in their heart of hearts, must they not envy the doctrinal offhandedness of their enemies! The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.

It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their lives a meaning.

Ennui is the martyrdom for those who live and die for no belief

In each man I passed I discerned a cadaver, in each odor a rot, in each joy a last grimace.