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Quotes About Despair

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
~ Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
~ Albert Camus
The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The light of a whole life dies When love is gone.
~ Francis William Bourdillon
What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.
~ Robert Pollok
No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
~ Thomas Hood
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
~ Andrew Marvell
Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth's soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.
~ Bob Seger
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
~ Andrew Solomon
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
~ Simone Weil
There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
~ Cassandra Clare
Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.
~ Marianne Williamson
And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.
~ Will Christopher Baer
Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
~ William Blake
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.
~ Zakk Wylde
The world is dyed with the color of blood. It will never be able to go back to the way it was before.
~ Matsuri Hino
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
~ Albert Camus
I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
~ Charles Bukowski
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
~ Graham Greene
Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
~ James Frey
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
~ Junot Diaz