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Quotes About Despair

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.
~ Peter Wessel Zapffe
There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.
~ Matthew Henry
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
~ Jodi Picoult
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
~ Amitav Ghosh
If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath
~ Joy Harjo
So what's on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
~ Jack Kerouac
[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
~ Barbara Stanwyck
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.
~ Victoria Laurie
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
~ Antonin Artaud
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair
~ Pope Benedict XVI
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
~ Sylvia Plath
O wretched state! o bosom black as death!
~ William Shakespeare
Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.
~ Peter D. Kramer
Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.
~ Conor Oberst
A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
~ Arthur Miller
In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.
~ Dalai Lama
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
~ William Shakespeare
Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.
~ Tennessee Williams
Despair is infidelity and death.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh that moment when Daniel thought he'd lost her to Cam's starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he'd given up all hope.
~ Lauren Kate