Quotes About Despair

If there were not laws against it; 9 of 10 men would be potential suicides

And the whole town just stood there crying, Looking at the darkness, For something wholesome and good

It was worse than having a sinking feeling; I was a sinking feeling, an unplayable adagio for strings; internal distances expanded and collapsed when I breathed.

Her sigh was full of despair, but at the bottom of her lungs, at the depth of her breath's expulsion, there was also hope, waiting like sleep at the end of even the most torrid day.

On ne connaît pas la véritable souffrance tant qu'on n'en est pas arrivé à souhaiter mourrir.

Choisir la mort, c'est insulter l'espoir ; or, même si on nage dans le désespoir, l'espoir demeure toujours.

Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.

aquel semblante descolorido y cadavérico me inspiraba profundo dolor.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life

Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

Industry pays debts while despair increases them.

Nine men in ten are would-be suicides.

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

people who read short stories love endings that make them want to gargle with Drano or nosedive off a skyscraper. But

I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.

You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.