Quotes About Despair

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

We men are wretched things.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.