Quotes About Despair

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

A man returns to die, between four walls, with the dawn, a collar of iron around the neck, to the withers, the tongue hanging ... as on the Goya print.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe, After night I do crowd, And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain.

Bit from the dolorous groan on high a shadow of smoke appeared, And human bones rattling together in the smoke and stamping The nether abyss, and gnashing in fierce despair, and panting in sobs, Thick, short, incessant, bursting, sobbing, deep despairing, stamping, Struggling to utter the voice of man, to take features of man, To take the limbs of man.

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

Death, in the form of necromantic magic, acts as a counterbalance to Life. It is an unavoidable force that breeds despair in mortal hearts and pushes everything toward a state of entropic decay and eventual oblivion.

In darkness there is death.

Nebesa nejsou humánní a já už toho mám dost.

Sometimes I felt so badly about those cats that I'd find myself wishing that both I and the cats could simply cease to exist.

In the end, when I could no longer hope or believe, when I was already a wreck, why did you take me back, a body without a soul, without love?

From outside comes the strident clamor of slogans over a loudspeaker and an accordion optimistically paints cheap color prints. And yet there is not a single flower on the laborers' table, not one little bouquet for the world to lean on.

Journeying from despair into a transformed perspective, through energy, is common for many people who awaken without understanding or preparation

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Humor is the politeness of despair.

I'm full of despair and yet, at the same time, I'm horribly happy. It's a nice kind of feeling to want something as badly as that.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Aaron looked strung-out, wearing a denim jacket over a grungy white T-shirt—the latest in heroin chic minus the chic.

I ducked inside, my mind still numb. The stench came first, the acid smells of urine and the never-mistaken stink of fecal matter. Something was burning—I think I knew what—and the damp yellow odor of sweat seemed to be coming from the walls. But there was something else here. The smell, not of death, but of predeath, like gangrene, like something dying and decomposing while still breathing. The

That was what people like Ariana Nasbro didn't quite get. The fragility of it all. The ripples one horror can unleash. How any carelessness can plummet you down that pit of despair. How it can all be irreparable. Yet

It's the cruelest thing in the world. Death is better. When you're dead, the pain stops. But hope keeps raising you way up high, only to drop you to the hard ground. Hope cradles your heart in its hand and then it crushes it with a fist. Over and over. It never stops. That's what hope does.

AM said it with the sliding cold horror of a razor blade slicing my eyeball. AM said it with the bubbling thickness of my lungs filling with phlegm, drowning me from within. AM said it with the shriek of babies being ground beneath blue-hot rollers. AM said it with the taste of maggoty pork. AM touched me in every way I had ever been touched, and devised new ways, at his leisure, there inside my mind.

I have no mouth. And I must scream...

AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream. (Page 13).