Quotes About Despair

We had dropped our seeds in our own little plot of black dirt just as Pecola's father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt. Our Innocence and faith were no more productive than his lust or despair.

Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.

I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.

The democratic failure transcends national boundaries. The embarrassing fiasco of the Copenhagen climate conference of December 2009 is already translating into cynicism and despair among young people:

In the conventional wisdom of the 1940s, the political polarizations of the last inter-war decade were born directly of economic depression and its social cost. Both Fascism and Communism thrived on social despair, on the huge gulf separating rich and poor.

Both Fascism and Communism thrived on social despair, on the huge gulf separating rich and poor. If the democracies were to recover, the 'condition of the people' question must be addressed. In the words of Thomas Carlyle a hundred years earlier, 'if something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody.

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thousands and millions of people. London, London - I hate you. I picked myself up and got ready.

I smell of decay, the acrid smell of a lonely person, a person with no respect or regard for themselves.

He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.

Beneath an unsinking black sun...through the boundless gloom...our journey continues.

There's no paradise for you to escape to."-Guts,Lost Children Arc

Hate is a place where a man, who can't stand sadness, goes.

There's no paradise for you to escape to.

Sven!! Having you near her is natural to Eve... Hell, it's essential! When someone so important just disappears... you don't just feel hurt... you feel like dying.

There's nothing good... behind those tears.

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

Me han dicho que eso de sentirse feliz sin felicidad solo funciona con cocaína. Por desgracia no es bueno para la salud. Además de muy caro. Hum, e ilegal, desde luego. Así que mejor sigo siendo desgraciada y espero a encontrar alguna razón para poder ser feliz.

I love you, Gwenny. Please don't leave me," said Gideon. That was the last thing I heard before a great void swallowed me up.

Det finns dagar då allt ljus har slocknat och alla du möter är kalla och fulla av hat. De bryr sig inte om någon-ting. Och i dag var det en sådan dag.

Grief is born. Grief matures. Grief passes. Despair, on the other hand, which arrives in an instant, ferments into depression. And although depression was months away, at least, already he felt himself not caring.

His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.

As Søren Kierkegaard says in the opening pages of The Sickness unto Death (the sickness in question is despair): "Everything essentially Christian must have in its presentation a resemblance to the way a physician speaks at the sickbed.

Annie, no stranger to disappointment, felt the hope break down inside her body and disperse without any lingering effects.

This world is rigged with ruin.