Quotes About Despair

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?

Depression is not an absence of happiness, it's a feeling that happiness may never return.

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

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

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don't know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.

Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.