Quotes About Despair

Disperare assolutamente dell'uomo non è spontaneo né facile; richiede vita e sforzo, lungo esercizio, volontà ferma; pochi ci arrivano. Una volta pervenuti alla dura vetta del Disperare Puro, guardarsi dalle speranze residue che possono rigerminare, dalle propensioni naturali verso il diabolico di una minore disperazione.

Il pleut mon âme il pleut mais il pleut des yeux morts

Cette bonne humeur qu'il affichait en toutes circonstances cachait sa part d'ombre et de souffrance et son naturel jovial cédait quelquefois la place aux idées noires et au découragement.

En pleno desconcierto, se lamenta por haberse cruzado con el amor porque ahora no sabe como continuar viviendo. Cada dia se convence de que manana todo sera mejor, que el tiempo lo cura todo, pero al dia siguente se hunde todavia mas.

Valjda je pakao tamo gde više ne postoji nada.

La mayoría de los suicidas morían desaliñados y sucios, con costras de mugre en la espalda, los dientes cariados al extremo de la podredumbre, las uñas largas y sucias, hongos en la piel, lagañosos. La muerte arribaba a ellos mucho antes de colgarse de los barrotes o de rebanarse la carótida con un trozo de azulejo.

Gus called Felix's name one last time, as though saying his name would snap him out of it, would miraculously bring Felix back… But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.

Užtemimas jiems buvo nuostabumo priešingyb?. Atrod? papras?iausiai teisinga, kad dangus ir Dievas pamin?jo j? sielvart?.

Vivían atormentados. Carentes de todo salvo de obscuridad. Demasiado tarde, ¿era demasiado tarde para ver la luz?

Guillermo Rosales

Wherever I looked, there was nothing but drab despair around me, and I had a soul to match, all mangled and torn.

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Mi vida es un erial, flor que toco se deshoja; que en mi camino fatal alguien va sembrando el mal para que yo lo recoja.

Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest of disappointments. The spirit is most alive when it is lost. Anxiety was Kafka's composure, as despair was Kierkegaard's happiness. Kafka said impatience is our greatest fault. The man at the gate of the Law waited there all of his life.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

La mina está llorando mucho.

and this morning I am without fire, my marrow is ash, I am very sad.

The fountains are dusty in the Graveyard of Dreams; The hinges are rusty, they swing with tiny screams.

For Mrs. Bradley, the voice she heard was the voice of the resurrected Jesus. It spoke of hope that, although white racists could take her son's life, they could not deprive his life and death of an ultimate meaning. As in the resurrection of the Crucified One, God could transmute defeat into triumph, ugliness into beauty, despair into hope, the cross into the resurrection.

Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again.

To say I had a hangover next morning would be failing even to hint at the utter disintegration of my bodily economy and personality. Only somebody who had consumed two or three quarts of assorted home made wines at a sitting could have an inkling of the quaking nausea, the raging inferno within, the jangling nerves, the black despairing outlook.

It was in the silence between us. When my soul cried and no matter what I did, there was no way to comfort it.

The greatest disease's are loneliness, despair, and hopelessness. The only cure is Love.