Quotes About Despair

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn't matter what he does.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.