Quotes About Despair

The old chieftain's eyes were bleak. "Is that all you have left to offer me from your bag of tricks, druid? Hope?"  "Hope is priceless," Coran assured him.  "Hope is what's left at the bottom of the bag," Hundred Battles said. "Like lint.

Insufficient respect for mystery leads to intellectual suicide; insufficient penetration of mystery leads to shallowness and despair.

Self-pity is not a pleasant emotion and is a fruitless one as well, for its point of no return is an onset of black despair in very short order.

Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary? They're only sad.

Matt heard a dove calling from the roof of the hospital. No hope, it said. No hope. No hope.

The Radletts were always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair; their emotions were on no ordinary plane, they loved or they loathed, they laughed or they cried, they lived in a world of superlatives.

All shall love me and despair,' " I said. She was eyeing me very dubiously. "Galadriel? In Lord of the Rings?

I didn't need this much more to lose.

Hope is cruel and has no consequence

Afterwards, once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

Life on the streets is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is nothing compared to the revulsion you feel for yourself. It's like being trapped in a walking corpse, a corpse that's hungry, stinks, and refuses to die.

Go to hell, I whispered. The night darker than ever, leaned in against the window panes.

is the sort that breaks a man's heart just walking...

Her face was lined with bitterness and her eyes looked glazed, tired of hating and weeping in solitude.

cause me physical pain. I was burning inside. Nothing and nobody could ease the pain. I became a gray figure in the corridors. My shadow merged with the walls. Days fell off the calendar like dead leaves.

The very thought that the poor creature could still hold the slightest bit of affection for him or for the world seem too cruel.

I was incapable of writing or feeling anything except the terror of her absence, of knowing she was lost, wrenched away.

Daniel recognized in him a pale reflection of the man he'd leaned to hate. Nothing remained of his regal face, of his arrogant demeanor and his haughty presence . Someone or something has ripped out everything that could be taken from a human being until all that remained was a longing for darkness and oblivion

Sé que alberga en su corazón grandes esperanzas, pero que ninguna de ellas se ha cumplido, y sé que eso, sin que usted se dé cuenta, le está matando un poco cada día que pasa.

Hope is cruel, and has no conscience.

The scenery is colorless and depressing. It looks as though life in Hell is very harsh. And lonely. Very, very lonely.

Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness—it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.

love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.