Quotes About Despair

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.

it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea's repose; I pass from waking agonies… to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain know only that the nerves scream, the body aches, and there is no one to turn crying to for comfort.

Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

Whose repeated remarks are a witless, thrustless dribble, whose impoverished sentences die like motherless chicks, cheaply fading.

I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev. Barabas sighed dramatically. Kate, you make me despair. Let's try that again from the top, except this time pretend you are an alpha. I don't need a lecture. I just need the book. Much better. Little more growl in the voice? Barabas! And we're there. Congratulations!

For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know— I've gone to Hell and you're my nursemaid.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.

I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

I was always very depressed, even when I was a youngster.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.'

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.