Quotes About Despair

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.

With love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All human destiny is contained in that dilemma, the choice between destruction and salvation, which is nowhere more implacably posed than in love. Love is life, or it is death. It is the cradle, but also the coffin. One and the same impulse moves the human heart to say yes or no. Of all things God has created it is the human heart that sheds the brightest light, and, alas, the blackest despair.

The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man writhed. He felt that he had been stopped short.

Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy.

Great grief contains dejection. They discourage existence.

Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly.

It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle against, the people. Beggars

The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.

Quoi que je fasse, elle est toujours là, cette pensée infernale, comme un spectre de plomb à mes côtés, seule et jalouse, chassant toute distraction, face à face avec moi misérable, et me secouant de ses deux mains de glace quand je veux détourner la tête ou fermer les yeux.

To be nothing where he had been everything was an unendurable decline.

Tout homme peut avoir dans sa destinée une fin du monde pour lui seul. Cela s'appelle le désespoir. L'âme est pleine d'étoiles tombantes.

The memory of an absent being kindles in the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; the star of the inner night.

I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, despair; I have darkness in my soul.

In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack

Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.

La tempestad es un pulmón que agrega sin cesar lúgubres agravaciones a lo que ya no tiene matiz, a lo negro.

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

Ä°nsan yüreÄŸi ancak belli bir miktar umutsuzluk bar?nd?rabilir. Sünger bir kez emeceÄŸini emdi mi, üstünden deniz geçse oraya fazladan bir damla su bile sokamaz.

Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and touching thing.

We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.

From his very first steps among men, he had felt himself, later on he had seen himself, spewed out, blasted, rejected. Human words were, for him, always a raillery or a malediction. As he grew up, he had found nothing but hatred around him. He had caught the general malevolence. He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.

BOOK SECOND—THE FALL

La suprema miseria porge occasione alle oscenità.

When the eye sees black, the heart sees trouble.