Quotes About Despair

Never let it happen to you as it did to me. That you wake in the morning, stare at the ceiling, ask yourself, 'What have I got to get up for today?' and answer... 'Nothing.

Darkness thickened and collapsed about him. Some of it never lifted again.

He was going mad and knew it, and somewhere deep inside a bit of sanity was screaming, struggling to fight off the hopeless flood of black terror. It was very horrible to go mad and know that you were going mad -- to know that in a little minute you would be here physically and yet all the real essence would be dead and drowned in the black madness. For this was the Dark -- the Dark and the Cold and the Doom.

If it were evenly distributed, said Rodman, the example of justice in the world might lead at last to a sane world policy. As it is, there is world despair and fury over the selfish fortune of a few, and all behave irrationally in revenge.

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. (Hanka)

However, the courage to take a rope and hang one's self, or jump out of a window, I do not have. Only those who are not accustomed to pain can do that.

What use is my life to me? I envy the dead. All day I envy them. I can't even earn my death.

Now I'm entirely without hope, and one dies of that more quickly than of cancer

Esa noche creí que había perdido para siempre la capacidad de enamorarme, que nunca más podría reírme ni perseguir una ilusión. Pero nunca más es mucho tiempo.

My heart is broken, he told himself. It was at that moment he understood the profound meaning of that common phrase: he thought he heard the sound of glass breaking and felt that the essence of his being was pouring out until he was empty, with no memory of the past, no awareness of the present, no hope for the future.

she goes and dies on me, betraying me before I can fulfill my dreams, and leaving me with this incurable despair.

Un día más de espera, uno menos de esperanza. Un día más de silencio, uno menos de vida. La muerte anda suelta por los pasillos y mi tarea es distraerla para que no encuentre tu puerta.

I am a clinical zombie.

Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men, from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Ail hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Now is the Winter of our discontent.