Quotes About Despair

La vida carecía de sentido y saberlo me atosigaba como a cualquier vecino de un callejón sin salida.

Nihilism, there's really nothing to it.

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

One can either despair and perish or be cheerful and persevere.

Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

Everything and everyone we treasured in this world comes to an end. I loved the world not for itself but for the marvelous gift that it was, and my only hope against eventual despair was to love something larger than the world, larger even than a near-infinite sparkling universe full of worlds.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

Una poetisa muerta de cáncer en su juventud había dicho en uno de sus poemas que para ella, en las noches de insomnio, la noche ofrece sapos, perros negros y cadáveres de ahogados

Las noches ofrecen sapos, perros negro y cadáveres de ahogados.

Si Fusako y las niñas hubiesen sido abandonadas, no les habría quedado otra salida que el suicidio. Pero los hombres, aunque se encuentren en una situación muy difícil, siempre tendrán una mujer que quiera morir con ellos.

Y si uno se siente demasiado solo incluso para suicidarse?

He went to the house, he said, when the despair of old age was too much for him.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

What could be poetic in a pigsty enveloped in so many curses?

You are never stronger, thought Samad as approached the doctor, than when you land on the other side of despair.

And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not equal her love.

he wanted to understand to the very end —Pascal's night —the nature of a diamond —the melancholy of the prophets —Achille's wrath —the madness of those who kill —the dreams of Mary Stuart —Neanderthal fear —the despair of the last Aztecs —Nietzsche's long death throes —the joy of the painter of Lascaux —the rise and fall of an oak —the rise and fall of Rome

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in a sickly air. People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Sorrow dogged by sorrow is in mah heart.

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything.