Quotes About Despair

You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced - like totally utterly convinced - that the world was going to blow itself to pieces.

Jesus died crying out to God 'My God, why hast thou forsaken me?' All Christian theology and all Christian life is basically an answer to the question which Jesus asked as he died.

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

so sad she couldn't even cry.

Hope was a thing that gave you pain, and that's what this girl was. A painful sort of hope.

You didn't talk about yourself, because you weren't really anybody, or your hopes, since you had none.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

But I've wept so much,' she said to Delay. 'Now I don't cry any more. When you don't cry it's because you no longer believe in happiness.

A wise man once said, it's not the despair that destroys you, it's the hope.

We live in a miserable world, where the best we can honestly hope for is that one empty, meaningless day will follow another without things getting actively worse.

It's how I do things. First, despair. Then hope.

it's not the despair that destroys you, it's the hope.

Ist die Wurzel einmal befallen, ist der Baum nicht mehr zu retten«, sagte der Gärtner.

He looks shocked, and worse. He looks like he's on the brink of breaking down completely.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Masses of Iraqis keep on dying for no palpably tangible reason that they can so much as identify to themselves, far less anyone else. Why?

A clear-eyed view of the hell I had landed in certainly would have thrown me deeper into despair. There is nothing like thought to deepen one's gloom.

This can't be life.

I am not the kind of goddess of victory that people cheer for. I am merely a marionette who is fighting to cut off her own strings. At my feet is a hill covered in skeletons...I am nothing but an angel of death.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

What then remains but that we still should cryFor being born, and, being born, to die?

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born, to die?

mi corazón es reino del espanto.