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Quotes About Despair

Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow. .
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Ah! What have you done to yourself my love, asked he. Don't dare to ask! For its your absence that resulted in such despair, said she. Is there any way, I can end this pain and anguish, asked he. Yes, my dear! Seal my lips with no delay, said she with quivering voice. So as you please, my love, followed he.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Ah! What have you done to yourself my love, asked he. Don't dare to ask! For its your absence that resulted in such despair, said she. Is there any way, I can end this pain and anguish, asked he. Yes, my dear! Seal my lips with no delay, whispered she with quivering voice. So as you please, my love, followed he."
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Mechanics of Mind: I feel the greatest source of despair stems not from what we do on a daily basis, but the pace at which our mind thinks vis-a-vis our progression in real life that matters - the greater the gap the more the despair!"
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Justice will come when those who hope outweigh those who despair. Hope is a force that cannot be reckoned with, ya Hayaat.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong.
~ Randy Russell
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
From the ruins of Heaven, humanity fell into the ruins of its own world. What
~ Raoul Vaneigem
All churches have a gospel-motivated obligation actively to teach and honor and promote marriage, for the display of the gospel in our world of confusion and despair
~ Ray Ortlund
Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
~ Raymond Carver
It is not a fragrant world.
~ Raymond Chandler
The only advantage he could see in the change was that he had a small desk in his room; his capacity for isolation was thereby increased. But none of this changed his life very much. He continued his games of billiards and his reading. And was periodically overwhelmed by abominable fits of despair from which he was abruptly extricated by a ridiculous but stubborn optimism, an absurd love of life.
~ Raymond Queneau
A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.
~ Raymond T. McNally
It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
~ Anne Bronte
When I was 18 in Cold Chisel, I didn't want to make it to 21. Who wants to be that old?
~ Jimmy Barnes
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
~ Norman Borlaug
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.
~ Noam Chomsky
To be inside an abandoned mall is surreal. Often times I feel like I'm the last person alive on the planet.
~ Seph Lawless
My heart is broken," she goes. "It's turned to a piece of stone. I'm no good. That's what's as bad as anything, that I'm no good anymore.
~ Raymond Carver
I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear.
~ Raymond Carver
I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. None of this is worth it! That's what I'd like people to hear.
~ Raymond Carver
I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. 'None of this is worth it!' That's what I'd like people to hear.
~ Raymond Carver
There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.
~ Raymond Chandler