Quotes About Despair

Let me love you, Ysolde. Let this happen. Since I was reborn, I have lived every moment in despair because I lost you. Let me worship you now as I've longed to do all those years." Baltic, Love In The Time of Dragons

What they don't understand is that it condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt.

I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die....

The world as he sees it is Hell.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months.

HEAVENS NEED FURNACES Heavens need furnaces, The factories where dross converts to light gasses. The sloughed skins of dreams are instant fuel, remarkably full of oil like creosote bushes. Your worst losses warm angels; despair puts a glint on God's hair. And the nicest surprise is the substance that rises when you know you can't get there from here.

The worst feeling is saying you're ok, holding back the tears; pretending to be a happy person; while dying on the inside."

You say you can't imagine what it must be like to lose a child. Let me make it easy for you. It's the beginning of the end of your world.

All my talent, if that's what you'd call it, goes only one way these days. Into the worst kind of darkness.

How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be.

I know a plastic surgeon who put the gun/ in his mouth, fired, and lived./ Thing of the echo. The brain in its great hall/ banqueting, then besieged.

The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.

Human beings are so depressing.

Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Jeff just didn't much give a shit after that. He'd done all he could, achieved everything a man could ever hope to—materially, romantically, paternally—and still it came to nothing, still he was left alone and powerless, with empty hands and heart. Back to the beginning; yet why begin at all, if his best efforts would inevitably prove futil

I knew from the beginning it was hopeless, but it's possible to love without hope.

I sipped my own, knowing again that everything in the world was ashes. Cold, and spent, and not quite worth the effort.

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The physician can only cure when he is willing to assume your disease. To be shunned is to be God a little...

I'll change my state with any wretch, Thou canst from jail or dunghill fetch; My pain's past cure, another hell, I may not in this torment dwell!