Quotes About Despair

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

White-on-black shootings evoke America's history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although they are truly menacing to the black community. They evoke only despair.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

There was light born on the darkest day, but no-one wants to know, and no-one wants to Cry

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don't want to.

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.