Quotes About Despair

I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.

Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

It was her way of saying, "You should kill yourself.

The future holds no hope or meaning to me. I know that by killing myself other people will suffer, but why go through this interminable hell? What's the point of being here if you feel unloved and abandoned by those you used to trust and count on? What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

Flush me down the toilet. Human waste.

Tus fracasos y tus culpas. Se quedan contigo. Se aglomeran y afean, crecen cancerosos dentro de ti y te dan ganas de morir.

Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuos stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my soul has died. We stopped writing home to our mothers. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.?

It was a day like a thousand others, she said. It had begun with caffeine and ended in a desire to slam her head into the drawer of her desk.

reality was bleak and often unbearable, their puny lives a meaningless trudge toward the blank vault of death.

I can live with the misery of the defeats. It's the hope I can't handle.

A veces uno amanece con ganas de extinguirse… Como si fuéramos velitas sobre un pastel de alguien inapetente. A veces nos arden terriblemente los labios y los ojos y nuestras narices se hinchan y somos horribles y lloramos y queremos extinguirnos… Así es la vida, un constante querer apagarse y encenderse.

Lo que pasa – dijo la Maga, revolviendo la leche sobre el calentador – es que la felicidad es solamente de uno y en cambio la desgracia pareciera de todos.

Lo que pasa —dijo la Maga, — es que la felicidad es solamente de uno y en cambio la desgracia parecería de todos.

ya ves, resulta todavía peor, te aparecés como el reverso de mi esperanza, cínicamente me golpeás la ventana y te quedás ahí esperando

No concibo mi vida más que como un encadenamiento de muertes sucesivas. Arrastro tras de mí los cadáveres de todas mis ilusiones, de todas mis vocaciones perdidas.

What would they do if I said I hurt so much I feel like I want to die? —Jeremy Richards

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

The limitations of necessity made him free. He loved the necessity which exercised his faculties, and brought before his vision what he loved to see. he could have done nothing in other surroundings. Prostitutes were his sisters, and working men his brothers. Like them he was an outcast- an outcast who knew the peace of that despair which has long since given up useless strife.

Peace is born of hope, when hope is gone there will be social upheavals

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

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.