Quotes About Despair

All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.

I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters.

When dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

I thought of telling him I didn't know about reasons, only about chains—how they form themselves, link by link, out of nothing; how they knit themselves into the world. Sometimes you can grab a chain and use it to pull yourself out of a dark place. Mostly, though, I think you get wrapped up in them. Just caught, if you're lucky. Fucking strangled, if you're not.

For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker; Lisey thinks they will either kill her or drive her insane.

her whole life had been a long and easy dream to lull her helplessly into this waking nightmare.

Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground

Ralph reflected for a moment on the similarities between loneliness and insomnia — how they were both insidious, cumulative, and divisive, the friends of despair and the enemies of love.

Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found.

There's little in life that's so disheartening as constant cold.

Here is something I learned in 1922: there are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares into a freakish horror that actually exists, and the only consolation is that there can be nothing worse. Even if there is, your mind will snap at the sight of it, and you will know no more. But there is worse, your mind does not snap, and somehow you carry on. You might understand that all the joy has gone...

A human in dark, is one without soul.

Life is about being optimistic and living life in despair is not the last resort of every problem

Loneliness is the endless disease that eats at our soul.

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide.

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

When we don't have way to express our feelings then at odds in choosing way and every path of life shows gloomy image.

What hurts the most?Rejection..

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.