Quotes About Despair

When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair.

When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair. Timon, unhappy as a rat racer, equally unhappy

Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own life-- for he was invulnerable. A terrible predicament he was in, to be utterly suicidal, and unable to perish.

Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.

Despair, the worst of all the deadly sins, since it is denial of the self, of the god-in-self, since it is so seductive, like the snow-death, so warm. Ah, who would tear himself to pieces when he might lie down in such arms, in comfort, and cease. Bless you, my despair, my dear and loving despair. So painlessly you take my pain away. Oh Father, by no means dash the cup from my lips -

Sivesh cried one name aloud. It was the name of Azhrarn, and in that name was all the pain and loneliness and despair and accusation that any mortal throat could utter.

Hope is a punishable offence. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

I have been clinging to a corpse, thinking I should lose it. Now it seems I am condemned not to. How ungrateful.

All at once she saw a young man bound on a wheel of iron; his hair was black, his white body marbed with purple wounds, and his face forever empty.

Leadenly he sank down on her again, his face in Chenti's pillow, his body slack, weakened as never before, in a deathlike speechless aftermath where thought ran all too free.

Her condition of insoluble despair had finally sought relief in song.

The grief would now take the world from him and deliver him to darkness, and he was glad of it.

For this was not the outcry of love, but one at last, and utterly, and forever, cheated.

El dolor fue tan profundo y tan crudo. Hubo días en que habría muerto solo para olvidar. El problema era que no sabía cómo sacarla de mi mente. ¿Cómo matas ese tipo de dolor?

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

Black was the without eye Black the within tongue Black was the heart Black the liver, black the lungs Unable to suck in light Black the blood in its loud tunnel Black the bowels packed in furnace Black too the muscles Striving to pull out into the light Black the nerves, black the brain With its tombed visions Black also the soul, the huge stammer Of the cry that, swelling, could not Pronounce its sun.

Every time you come in yelling that God damn Rise and Shine! Rise and Shine! I say to myself, How lucky dead people are!

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Most people's lives—what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death.

You know it's a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

In prison we become the prisoners even of our dreams.

contemplated suicide. Part of the reason was because I didn't want to go on living without my sweet baby boy. I missed him terribly and my guilt was beyond excruciating. It was the worst kind of torture imaginable. I just wanted to end my suffering.

Sure. Life is full of ups and downs, but we all know that some downs are worse than others. There are those from which we simply cannot recover. Or at least it might seem that way when we're in the depths of the worst possible scenario.