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Quotes About Despair

Me has dado sentimientos y pasiones, pero me has abandonado al desprecio y al asco de la humanidad.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The cup of life was poisoned forever.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life was then brilliant; I began to learn to hope and what brigs a more bitter despair to the heart than hope destroyed?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I lived in a desolate country where there were none to praise and very few to love.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
These were wild and miserable thoughts; but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known. All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? My love, my love, my love, if only you could have known.
~ Mary Zimmerman
For awhile, I thought that was love. -Gaara
~ Masashi Kishimoto
If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
I shut my eyes a long time ago. The things I seek lie only in darkness.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. -Madara Uchiha
~ Masashi Kishimoto
She sometimes thought of herself as a sort of extraterritorial patriot: given a country, she would be proud, and given a uniform, she would serve. Instead, she was given Russia, which filled her heart with despair and her mind with the idea that life was not worth living.
~ Masha Gessen
Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
~ Matthew Arnold
believes the world is against him. Nothing
~ Matthew Pearl
Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...
~ Matthew Pearl
His life was a suicide. He gave up his soul for fear, little by little, until there was nowhere left in the universe but hell.
~ Matthew Pearl
Depression settled down upon her, and although she tried to brush it away it thickened like a fog. ...But she felt lonely and deserted and futile. A mood like this has to be fought...
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
She felt heavy and lifeless, and her mind reached out despairingly for something to fill the day.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
When the darkness came for Dottie, it was quick and it was total.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness. Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. It was dark and gloomy, and yet, it didn't seem that things would get any better if the lights were turned up.
~ Maureen Johnson
No. Forget it. You're only fooling yourself." "About what?" "About anything being worth a damn. It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood.
~ Ayn Rand
The houses stood like men in unpressed suits, who had lost the desire to stand straight:
~ Ayn Rand