Quotes About Despair

It wasn't enough for Julia to be taken away from the family. All the good things about her had to be taken away, too.

She had felt this intense disembodiment for the last four days, really from the moment the Snake Man had told them to turn around. And then the police, the undertaker, asking if she wanted to see the body one last time and Claire blanching at the word body and sobbing like a child because she had spent every single second since they had taken Paul from her arms trying to remove the image of her lifeless, murdered husband from her mind.

He fell into the empty seat at the back of the bus, half-wishing the lightning zigzagging out of the sky would come through the window and hit him right in the head.

My father is dead. My husband left me. The last few days have been the shittiest days I've had since you were shot and Mama died. I'm sorry I'm not happy and peppy for you, but my give-a-fuck is broken .

She knew that there came a point when your mind told you everything was wrong, but your body betrayed you anyway, reaching out for whatever comfort was offered.

Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.

How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

Even in despair, man must laugh.

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.