Quotes About Despair

Civilized misery, she thought, is the worse misery. Grey and hopeless. But now she thought, I shall escape.

Lord save me from this abomination that I have to face in the mirror each and everyday

Je parle de millions d'hommes à qui on a inculqué savamment la peur, le complexe d'infériorité, le tremblement, l'agenouillement, le désespoir, le larbinisme.

At the end of the small hours: life flat on its face, miscarried dreams and nowhere to put them, the river of life listless in its hopeless bed, not rising or falling, unsure of its flow, lamentably empty, the heavy impartial shadow of boredom creeping over the quality of all things, the air stagnant, unbroken by the brightness of a single bird.

And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.

Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberté de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du désespoir.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Clad in the magnificent white silk robes of an Arab prince, with in his belt the short curved, gold sword of the Ashraf descendants of the Prophet, he hoped to pass unnoticed through London. Alas, he was mistaken. "Who am I?" he would cry despairingly. "You are Lawrence of Arabia" passers-by would stop him and say, "And I claim my five pounds."

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

and all they could do was sit, sleep, eat, and be reminded day after day, night after night, of their disease and eventual death.

The few poignant moments before the battle, before the gas chamber... these little meetings of kindred spirits, without a past to give them guidance or a future to give them hope, they would find a measure of peace and coherence to lend a reason to the farcical affairs of mankind. Man, in all his wild adventures, had not, as yet, discovered a substitute for faith.

So yet another man had encountered the morass of my family and felt the only solution was to put a gun to his head. This does not bode well.

What has become of the adventures of the heart? Killed by the dark adventures of existence. ERICH MARIA REMARQUE

European starvation was rather more cunning and wore a series of clever masks: death came by drink, by tuberculosis, by the knife, by despair in all its manifestations.

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

Patience is about responsibility—for your emotional response to situations, and for the situations themselves. Wait—and be saved like a bird from a snare; Hurry, and usher your soul to despair. —YOSEF QIMHI (C. 1160–1235)

Do not however suppose that the conclusion to be drawn will turn out to be one of despair. Angst is an intermittently fashionable emotion and the misreading of some existentialist texts has turned despair itself into a kind of psychological nostrum. But if we are indeed in as bad a state as I take us to be, pessimism too will turn out to be one more cultural luxury that we shall have to dispense with in order to survive in these hard times.

All I do know is that in six hours I could be suffering from acute existence failure.

I'm a total pessimist.

I'm very pessimistic.

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.