Quotes About Despair

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

If you stay in bed all day with the covers over your head, if you overeat for the millionth time in your life, if you get drunk, if you get stoned, if it's just this habitual thing that you think is going to make you feel better, you know that's going to depress you and make you more discouraged.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Art never comes from happiness

The creative hopeless.

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them.

she had stopped hoping to meet

Because the one thing I hate about hope - the one thing I despise about it, that no one ever seems to admit about it- is that suddenly having hope is the easiest route to sudden hopelessness there is.

even on medication, there is nothing tempting enough to make me want to rise

Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.

You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can't remember that I've ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.

Ben, everything is going to get better, he heard her say in the void. Really. It has to get better, because it can't get worse. Ben opened his eyes with a jolt, staring at himself in the mirror. That's not true, he suddenly thought. It can definitely get worse. As he nodded at Sara and pretended to smile, he understood that it was the first intelligent thought he had ever had.

Shark snorts. " Hope ? What's that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.

If I had an ordinary illness, I'm sure they could fix me. But I've seen demons rip my world to pieces. Nobody believes that, so nobody knows what I'm going through. I'm alone. I always will be. That's my life now. That's just the way it is.

Maybe I should end it all before I regress.

I'm sure I could crack open my skull and scoop out enough of my brain to put myself out of my misery. It would be a gruesome way to die, but wouldn't it be better than shuffling around as a lost, tormented soul for the rest of my wretched years?