Quotes About Despair

It's my perspective: gloom and doom.

I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.

We ought to take a deep breath—symbolically—with the singer, because we have, in a sense, "made it." We have survived the first movement's brutality and despair, participated in the second's harsh struggle, and been purified by the third's glowing acceptance of life as it is. What Beethoven wants us to experience now is all-embracing joy.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

You are as young as your faith, or as old as your dpubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Dude, you're a vampire. EVERY day sucks for you.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

She wasn't dead, but she was in hell. He'll on earth.

She wasn't dead, but she was in hell. Hell on earth.

Adults are not always so fun. Sometimes I go to parties filled with mature people who know things and act their age and I"m quickly filled with despair. I walk in the door and greet the host and mill about, but in the pit of my stomach I know that leaving home was a mistake. I will not be surprised and delighted. I will not learn something new. I will not even enjoy the sound of my own voice. I will be lulled into a state of excruciating paralysis and self-hatred and other-people hatred.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help. That is, only for one who feels infinite anguish.

Some have it that patience is actually despair dressed as a virtue.

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

futilidad que las animaban.

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People -- The Only Hope is Dope.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.