Quotes About Despair

Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it.

what we desperately do want to avoid is not merely suffering but suffering without meaning.

This is the very thing that has driven people to suicide through the centuries. It is hopelessness made real, or to use Milton's famous phrase, it is "darkness visible,"15 a description that the author William Styron used as a title for his own poignant memoir on depression.

Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.

How strange to think there was something worse than death.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Sometimes, this rage builds up inside me and I...I feel like it's eating me alive. Like soon there'll be nothing left of me but hatred and despair...It's more alive than I am.

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5

I did nothing wrong, and yet I have lost everything!

He turned away from Leafpool, bristling with fury. "I hate being blind. I wish I had never been born!

With this life I give you humor. Use it to lighten the burdens of your Clan and to lift the spirits of your Clanmates when despair threatens.

As he looked across to the opposite bank a cold claw sank into his heart. Sandstorm was gone.

Tengo la impresión de estar perdiendo el interés por todo. Tal vez se deba a que estoy creciendo o que la vida se esta volviendo más asquerosa.

Querido Diario: Han transcurrido mil años lunares, del tiempo lunar. Todo el mundo ha estado contando historias menos yo. No tengo nada digno que contar. Todo lo que puedo hacer es dibujar monstruos, órganos internos y odiar.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

There's nothing so bad that it can't grow worse. There's no limit to how bad things can be.

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their Fees, "There is no Cure for this Disease."

I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.

When it's still—when it's the cellar of a house, or a ring of mushrooms in a forest or a gun emplacement outside Offenburg—it's called one of two things. If it remains static and unchanging then we call it a despair. If it seeks to extend its influence then it is a malignancy. Or as the Director puts it—a despair will suck you in, but a malignancy is coming to get you.

It seemed that her prospects were bleak but often when things are at their most desperate they become progressively worse leading to a spiral of despair that ends in inevitable destruction.

Nine men in ten are suicides.