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Quotes About Despair

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~ Dante Alighieri
There's always hope, and there's always despair.
~ Andrea Riseborough
I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.
~ Soccer Mommy
What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.
~ Orson Bean
My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.
~ Tim Kennedy
Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
~ Ross MacDonald
I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
~ Aileen Wuornos
There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.
~ Gillian Flynn
Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder.
~ Gillian Flynn
I don't feel like Nick's wife. I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
~ Gillian Flynn
Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.
~ Gillian Flynn
To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached.
~ Gillian Flynn
I was lying in bed thinking about killing myself, a hobby of mine. Indulgent afternoon daydreaming: A shotgun, my mouth, a bang and my head jerking once, twice, blood on the wall. Spatter, splatter.
~ Gillian Flynn
Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.
~ Gillian Flynn
I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
~ Gillian Flynn
He took away chunks of me with blasé swipes: my independence, my pride, my esteem. I gave, and he took and took. He Giving Treed me out of existence. That whore, he picked that little whore over me. He killed my soul, which should be a crime.
~ Gillian Flynn
I don't know that anything would be any good anywhere, so it's hard to gauge if this is better or worse, you know what I mean?" "Like: This place is miserable and I want to die, but I can't think of any place I'd rather be," I offered. He turned and stared at me, blue eyes mirroring the oval pool. "That's exactly what I mean." Get used to it, I thought.
~ Gillian Flynn
It is always consoling to think of suicide; it's what gets one through many a bad night.
~ Gillian Flynn
Patty knew that feeling, a dream hangover, like when she jumped up from a panicky sleep at 2 in the morning and tried to talk herself into thinking the farm was OK, that this year would pick up, and then felt all the sicker when she woke up to the alarm a few hours later, guilty and duped. It was suprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.' -Dark Places
~ Gillian Flynn
I thought a lot about killing myself—it's a hobby today
~ Gillian Flynn
He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse. I don't feel like Nick's wife. I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
~ Gillian Flynn
I was lying in bed thinking of killing myself, a hobby of mine.
~ Gillian Flynn
too serious, Amy, you're too uptight, Amy, you overthink things, you analyze too much, you're no fun anymore, you make me feel useless, Amy, you make me feel bad, Amy. He took away chunks of me with blasé swipes: my independence, my pride, my esteem. I gave, and he took and took. He Giving Treed me out of existence. That whore, he picked that little whore over me. He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime.
~ Gillian Flynn