Quotes About Despair

Hell is being alone.

I can't tell Mom. Can't tell her that her insistence on my productivity doesn't matter. That her insistence that I think about my future doesn't matter. None of that matters. I won't be around in the future. The decision has already been made. I won't be around. Whether it's now or in a week or in a few months. It's going to happen. Soon. I'm almost relieved.

Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation.

Depressed? No one in the world but a doper could know the true opposite of depressed.

I feel rotten but I can't change the way I feel.

There are so many reasons to be sad in the club.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

It got to the point where I couldn't afford to borrow any more money to lose. Know what I mean? That was just before 'Frampton,' my fourth album. As we were recording it, I was very down and depressed.

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

It is the taste of helplessness when you see your beloved fading away like a dream and you cannot help him.

I don't know you anymore! Anakin, you're breaking my heart! You're going down a path I can't follow!

For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of heaven, and of country sounds and odours; and an almost constant sense of oppression from the propinquity of one or another whom she had cause to fear, were speedily working sad effects upon her.

Nothing almost sees miracles But misery.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

No sentimentality, comrade...The only good human being is a dead one.