Quotes About Despair

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

I knew, I knew any proper, decent life was over. The word of a man like that was like a death sentence . . . I had known it all along, but it is a very different matter to know your sentence, and then to hear it spoken by your judge . . . Truest of all things, there was no one to help me, no one to stand at my side.

Men so sick they are dying of death.

Something had happened to that sorrow. It had gone rancid in him, he thought; it had boiled down to something he didn't understand. The pith of sorrow was in the upshot a little seed of death.

What is this growing old, when even the engine that holds our despair and hope in balance begins to fail us.