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Quotes About Despair

They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.
~ Unknown
He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.
~ V.S. Carnes, Sand for Dreams
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
~ Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i
the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death
~ Unknown
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it."STATE OF WONDER
~ Ann Patchett
We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.
~ Marty Rubin
Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
~ Leonid Andreyev
While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.
~ Unknown
In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.
~ Unknown
Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much a difference at all.
~ Amy Zhang
At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.
~ Calista Lynne, We Awaken
People do not die from suicide. They die from sadness.
~ Anonymous
What if I just want to die?""Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.
~ Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
suicide is not just killing yourself, but the world outside
~ Mayank Sharma
A place with no handholds, no landmarks, no past at all:That would have been too much like dying
~ Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.
~ M.C. Frank, No Ordinary Star
I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
~ Unknown
You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.
~ Charlie Huston, Sleepless
You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'Tatsu.
~ Unknown