Quotes About Despair

He posited that a new kind of man—the Übermensch (the higher person or superman)—would be necessary in the aftermath of the death of God, so that society would not drift toward the opposing rocky shoals of despair and oversystematized political theorizing.

Referring to my mental process as "thinking" was probably a stretch. It felt more like a broken record, and the part it kept skipping back to was the part where the world sucked, I sucked, and I was an idiot for thinking things would ever get any better.

Los dos atrapados en medio de ninguna parte. Los dos sintiéndose residuos de un mundo en aras de desaparecer. Ni la vieja policía ni los viejos periodistas tenían cabida en lo que se avecinaba. El fascismo era control. Absoluto.

Te apuesto a que soy más infeliz que tú. ¿Doble o nada?

O Sem-Pernas ficava pensando. E achava que a alegria daquela liberdade era pouca para a desgraça daquela vida.

Some sorrows can only be cured by suicide or a sonnet.

No mais fundo do seu coração ele tinha pena da desgraça de todos. E rindo, e ridicularizando, era que fugia da sua desgraça. Era como um remédio.

Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope.

Vraiment, quand j'y songe, la littérature n'a qu'une raison d'être, sauver celui qui la fait du dégoût de vivre!

Seigneur, prenez pitié du chrétien qui doute, de l'incrédule qui voudrait croire, du forçat de la vie qui s'embarque seul, dans la nuit, sous un firmament que n'éclairent plus les consolants fanaux du vieil espoir !

Lo terrible es la esperanza

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Maldita sea mi estrella aciaga, que ni en vida ni en muerte se dieron cuenta de que yo tenía corazón!

An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

She wanted to pray, but who prays in the hour of despair? Prayers are said in hope; otherwise the invocation to God becomes a reproach. So it was that in her heart she cried out and complained that this one man had been singled out to be cut off from the love of others, and asked why he was not denied sun and air and the sight of the skis, when one could live without these, but not without love.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Psalm 22:14-15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Two days she watched them, seeing them refuse all food or comfort and seeking each other as blind men seek, wretched apart and together more wretched still, for then they trembled each for the first avowal.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

The suffering of the world, the mystery of the universe, the impulse towards the sublime in love and heroism, the grief and despair over a dreamt of but unattainable beatitude, the hamlet-like visits to cemeteries, the romantic parlour, romantic beards, and romantic haircuts-all these and similar things gave evidence of restive spirits. It was expected and feared that they would join conspiratorial sects and rise with arms in their hand the moment they had the chance.