Quotes About Despair

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything. Houses without roofs, and roofs without houses. Steel and stone all crushed and crumbled like wood. The mother of malice had trifled with men.

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. This

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

At the same time the wretched rooms rose before him, denuded of the poetry of love which beautifies everything; he saw them dirty and faded, regarding them as emblematic of an inner life devoid of honor, idle and vicious. Are not our feelings written, as it were, on the things about us?

Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in the world; I am no longer a father!

It is not hope, but despair, which gives the measure of our ambitions. The finest poems of hope are sung in secret, but grief appears without a veil.

De entrada, intimidado por el alto rango de esta mujer, a Lucien le dominaron todos los terrores, las esperanzas y desesperanzas que acompañan al primer amor y lo sitúan de forma tan preeminente en el corazón por los golpes que alternativamente asestan el dolor y el placer.

Rien ne grise comme le vin du malheur.

multe femei triste al c?ror suflet, desf?cut de toate leg?turile omene?ti, tânjea dup? îndelunga sinucidere s?vâr?it? în sânul lui Dumnezeu.

If you pay court to a young girl whose existence is a compound of loneliness, despair, and poverty, and who has no suspicion that she will come into a fortune, good Lord! it is quint and quatorze at piquet;

I needed someone to tell me it was all right to feel the anger and despair, but I received only kudos for my synthetically mature, responsible behavior.

This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.

A desgraça só atinge o paroxismo quando se esteve muito próximo da felicidade.

Lonesomeness, on the other hand, did not depend on circumstance. It was bolted in the heart and seized on a man's weakness, a vise that squeezed all possibility out of time, that crushed hope and rendered meaningless anything tomorrow could offer.

Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins Americans

When we realize, really get to know what stinkers we are, it takes only a little depression to tip the scales in favor of suicide. - Dr. Walter Freeman (62)

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Ozour pourtant est las du voyage. On part découragé, en lâche ou en héros, dans l'illusion d'une autre vie, mais il n'y a pas d'issue. L'exil est une prison.

Like if youre beautiful you dont feel pain or have dreams or know the despair of loneliness. Why should you be unhappy, youre so beautiful? My God they drive me nuts, like all I am is a beautiful body and nothing else. Not once, never, have they ever tried to love the real me, to love me for what I am, to love me for my mind.

Unfortunately, I suspect there never will be a requiem for the Dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn its passing.

Vinnie loves me. He loves me. It. Wasn/t. Shit

I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

It seemed as though most of the cats that we'd come up with just hadn't made it," he says. "Almost everybody was dead or in jail." Many young Black men in our generation can say the same thing. Drugs, oppression, and despair take their toll. Survival is not a simple matter or something to be taken for granted.