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Quotes About Despair

The sadness grew within her until she seemed to exist only as a dark nimbus of melancholy, and even Max could no longer cheer her with his talk and his
~ Chaim Potok
the most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't. "That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier.
~ Charlaine Harris
The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.
~ Charlaine Harris
I had lived too close to the edge of despair and mental illness not to recognize it in others
~ Charlaine Harris
Theoretically, then, I was delighted and hopeful for my two friends. But I couldn't feel it. I'd seen awful things, and I'd done awful things. Now I felt like two different people trying to exist inside the same space.
~ Charlaine Harris
Ne cherchez plus mon cÅ"ur; des monstres l'ont mangé.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
~ Charles Baudelaire
When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.
~ Paula Yates
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.
~ Lilly Singh
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
~ Susan Sontag
I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.
~ Thomas Bernhard
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Seen from across the street, he was like someone to whom the world had long since given notice to quit but who was compelled to stay in it, no longer belonging to it, but unable to leave it.
~ Thomas Bernhard
But simple people don't understand complicated ones and thrust the latter back on themselves, more ruthlessly than any others, I thought. The biggest mistake is to think that one can be rescued by so-called simple people. A person goes to them in an extremely needy condition and begs desperately to be rescued and they thrust this person even more deeply into his own despair. And how are they supposed to save the extravagant one in his extravagance, I thought. Wertheimer
~ Thomas Bernhard
El arte, ese gran niño nacido muerto.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Ich kenne die Natur überhaupt nicht und ich hasse sie, denn sie bringt mich um.
~ Thomas Bernhard
The only advice i can offer to any thinking person is to kill himself before the millennium
~ Thomas Bernhard
M? gândesc cu pl?cere la autodistrugere ÅŸi autodesfiinÅ£are.N-am altceva de f?cut toat? viaÅ£a.Iar dac? nu m? înÅŸel,chiar îmi reuÅŸesc autodistrugerea ÅŸi autodesfiinÅ£area.De când m? scol dimineaÅ£a,primul meu gând este s? acÅ£ionez decis la distrugerea ÅŸi desfiinÅ£area mea.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Lebenslängliche Theaterkerkerhaft ohne die geringste Begnadigungsmöglichkeit Und doch niemals aufgegeben Strafanstalt als Theater Zehntausende Insassen die alle keine Aussicht auf Begnadigung haben Nur die Todesstrafe ist ihnen allen sicher
~ Thomas Bernhard
But the city doesn't grab anyone under the arms: on the contrary, it constantly seeks to fend off the unfortunate people who repair to it in search of a career, to destroy them and annihilate them.
~ Thomas Bernhard
The loser was a born loser, I thought, he has always been the loser and if we observe the people around us carefully we notice that these people consist almost entirely of losers like him, I said to myself, of
~ Thomas Bernhard
Life is the purest, clearest, darkest, most crystalline form of hopelessness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ There is only one way to go, through the snow and ice into despair; past the adultery of reason.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. All their lives long, as long as their existence allows for this constantly recurring process, so Roithamer.
~ Thomas Bernhard