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Quotes About Despair

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
~ Anne Carson
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
~ Stephen King, The Shining
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
~ Aristotle
Loneliness is an emaciation of the spirit. -Who Has Known Heights: The Mystique Memoirs of a Melancholic Mind
~ Wheston Chancellor Grove
On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.
~ Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
When you run out of love, it's really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you…
~ Munia Khan
Living was a sad and empty thing
~ E.E. Holmes, Spirit Ascendancy
To live unhappily, is failing life.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.
~ Ankur Basu Roy
He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.
~ Erin McCarthy, Jacked Up
Let your heart be an infant of hope not an adult of despair.
~ Debasish Mridha
It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
~ Joseph Brodsky
If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
~ Charles Bukowski
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
~ Ted Kooser, Braided Creek
Poetry is a religion with no hope.
~ Jean Cocteau
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
~ Jose Bergamin
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
~ Edward Abbey
Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar, My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die.
~ Timothy Salter
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
~ T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
~ William S. Burroughs
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
~ George Orwell, 1984