Quotes About Despair

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.

Despair is the emotion we feel at the death of beings within us.

Bessie could not keep from thinking, "His nightmare will be over, but mine will never be.

But when a sick person begins to feel that he's going to die, half my work is useless.

Truly, many times have you heard me say that the rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed. Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. Many others face each obstacle in their path with fear and doubt and consider them as enemies when, in truth, these obstructions are friends and helpers.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

But despair is what keeps love alive.

Estoy sufriendo las penas del infierno sin ni siquiera haber muerto.

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, said Kadife. Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

despair is what keeps love alive.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Though I drew my last breath long ago and my heart has stopped beating, no one, apart from that vile murderer, knows what's happened to me.

They've been taping your phone conversations for four years." He lay down again, weeping silently. "I want to die," he said.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy.

Kad sam postao toliko nesretan da više ni za što nisam bio sposoban - tad sam po?eo misliti na sre?u.

Only a poet—not a novelist, and certainly not a historian—would be able to describe the despair that began to seep through the city toward the middle of June.

Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you.

He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.