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Quotes About Despair

I could feel myself slipping inside that dark alcoholic envelope of depression and regret that for long periods had been characteristic of my adult life.
~ James Lee Burke
But nobody was really desperate.
~ James Lincoln Collier
Where Darth Sidious had gained everything, Vader had lost everything.
~ James Luceno
He had gotten a new set of clothes someplace, but they were only worse new versions of the same thing he wore before: black trousers, black vest, frock coat, stiff collar, withered, crumpled, and chewed at the edges. His boots was worse than ever, crumpled like pieces of text paper, curled at the toes. In other words, he looked normal, like his clothes was dying of thirst, and he himself was about to keel over out of plain ugliness.
~ James McBride
Late at night, when the hour is none, I dream the dreams of the damned.
~ James Michael Rice
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~ James O'Barr
Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!
~ James Patterson
There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.
~ James Patterson
Purple is such a twisted, complex color—it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too—fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.
~ James Patterson
The color of my eyes is like barfed-up chocolate?" Despair settled over me. There was no hope. "No, the chocolates before they were barfed," Angel clarified. So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl. "Max
~ James Patterson
Nothing. My heart sank down into my stomach.
~ James Patterson
Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens." My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer's
~ James Patterson
I couldn't stop the overwhelming sadness I felt. It ate at me, like acid splashed all over my body.
~ James Patterson
even for a meth addict. She was sleeping
~ James Patterson
It was like crawling into the asshole of Satan.
~ James Patterson
Do you ever miss it, not being a doctor anymore? I shook my head, frowned a little. I really don't. Something delicate and essential broke inside me when Isabella died. It will never be repaired, Kyle, at least I don't think so. I couldn't be a doctor now. I find it hard to believe in healing anymore.
~ James Patterson
I'll bet you think my favorite color is red, don't you? Well, close. It's purple. Purple is such a twisted, complex color--it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too--fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.
~ Max von Sydow
Everybody has unhappiness.
~ Mark Lanegan
Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.
~ Ricky Gervais
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
~ Al Purdy
My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.
~ Vincent Cassel
In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.
~ Stephen Kinzer
I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.
~ Tommy Kirk